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Partial evaluation is a program specialization technique that allows to optimize a program for which partial input is known. We propose a new approach to generate specialized programs for a Java-like language via the software verification tool KeY. This is achieved by symbolically executing source programs interleaved with calls to a simple partial evaluator. In a second phase the specialized programs are synthesized from the symbolic execution tree. The correctness of this approach is guaranteed by a bisimulation relation on the source and specialized programs.
This work has been partially supported by the EU project FP7-ICT-2007-3 HATS Highly Adaptable and Trustworthy Software using Formal Models and the EU COST Action IC0701 Formal Verification of Object-Oriented Software.
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Bubel, R., Hähnle, R., Ji, R. (2011). Program Specialization via a Software Verification Tool. In: Aichernig, B.K., de Boer, F.S., Bonsangue, M.M. (eds) Formal Methods for Components and Objects. FMCO 2010. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 6957. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-25271-6_5
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