The FLINT project at Yale aims to build a state-of-the-art systems environment for modern
typesafe languages. One important component of the FLINT system is a high-performance …

An important function of any register allocator is to target registers so as to eliminate copy
instructions. Graph-coloring register allocation is an elegant approach to this problem. If the …

We are investigating a new approach to compiling Standard ML (SML) based on four key
technologies: interwional polymorphism [23], nearlg tag-free garbage collection[12, 46, 34] …

Proof-carrying code (PCC) is a framework for mechanically verifying the safety of machine
language programs. A program that is successfully verified by a PCC system is guaranteed …

Closure conversion is a program transformation used by compilers to separate code from
data. Previous accounts of closure conversion use only untyped target languages. Recent …

Many compilers do some of their work by means of correctness-preserving, and hopefully
performance-improving, program transformations. The Glasgow Haskell Compiler (GHC) …

Many compilers do some of their work by means of correctness-preserving, and hopefully
performance-improving, program transformations. The Glasgow Haskell Compiler (GHC) …

We present a series of CPS-based intermediate languages suitable for functional language
compilation, arguing that they have practical benefits over direct-style languages based on A …

It has been nearly twenty years since Robin Milner introduced ML as the metalanguage of
the LCF interactive theorem prover [5]. His elegant use of abstract types to ensure validity of …

Language-based security relies on the assumption that all potential attacks follow the rules
of the language in question. When programs are compiled into a different language, this is …