The Space of Interaction

The space complexity of functional programs is not well understood. In particular, traditional implementation techniques are tailored to time efficiency, and space efficiency induces time inefficiencies, as it prefers re-computing to saving. Girard's geometry of interaction underlies an alterna...

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Vydané v:Proceedings of the 36th Annual ACM/IEEE Symposium on Logic in Computer Science s. 1 - 13
Hlavní autori: Accattoli, Beniamino, Lago, Ugo Dal, Vanoni, Gabriele
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Jazyk:English
Vydavateľské údaje: IEEE 29.06.2021
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Games
Geometry
Semantics
Turing machines
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Shrnutí:The space complexity of functional programs is not well understood. In particular, traditional implementation techniques are tailored to time efficiency, and space efficiency induces time inefficiencies, as it prefers re-computing to saving. Girard's geometry of interaction underlies an alternative approach based on the interaction abstract machine (IAM), claimed as space efficient in the literature. It has also been conjectured to provide a reasonable notion of space for the λ-calculus, but such an important result seems to be elusive.In this paper we introduce a new intersection type system precisely measuring the space consumption of the IAM on the typed term. Intersection types have been repeatedly used to measure time, which they achieve by dropping idempotency, turning intersections into multisets. Here we show that the space consumption of the IAM is connected to a further structural modification, turning multisets into trees. Tree intersection types lead to a finer understanding of some space complexity results from the literature. They also shed new light on the conjecture about reasonable space: we show that the usual way of encoding Turing machines into the λ-calculus cannot be used to prove that the space of the IAM is a reasonable cost model.
DOI:10.1109/LICS52264.2021.9470726