Chandra, Satish, Gordon, Colin S., Jeannin, Jean-Baptiste , Schlesinger, Cole, Sridharan, Manu, Tip, Frank, Choi, Young-Il
Proceedings of the 2016 ACM Conference on Object-Oriented Programming, Systems, Languages, and Applications (OOPSLA 2016), November 2016, doi: 10.1145/2983990.2984017
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Bibtex
@inproceedings{oopsla16,
author = {Chandra, Satish and Gordon, Colin S. and Jeannin, Jean-Baptiste
and Schlesinger, Cole and Sridharan, Manu and Tip, Frank and Choi,
Young-Il},
title = {{Type Inference for Static Compilation of JavaScript}},
booktitle = {{Proceedings of the 2016 ACM Conference on Object-Oriented
Programming, Systems, Languages, and Applications (OOPSLA 2016)}
},
month = {November},
year = {2016},
doi = {10.1145/2983990.2984017},
acm = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2983990.2984017},
eprint = {1608.07261},
address = {{Amsterdam, The Netherlands}},
url = {http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?doid=2983990.2984017},
abstract = { We present a type system and inference algorithm for a rich
subset of JavaScript equipped with objects, structural subtyping,
prototype inheritance, and first-class methods. The type system
supports abstract and recursive objects, and is expressive enough
to accommodate several standard benchmarks with only minor
workarounds. The invariants enforced by the types enable an
ahead-of-time compiler to carry out optimizations typically
beyond the reach of static compilers for dynamic languages.
Unlike previous inference techniques for prototype inheritance,
our algorithm uses a combination of lower and upper bound
propagation to infer types and discover type errors in all code,
including uninvoked functions. The inference is expressed in a
simple constraint language, designed to leverage off-the-shelf
fixed point solvers. We prove soundness for both the type system
and inference algorithm. An experimental evaluation showed that
the inference is powerful, handling the aforementioned benchmarks
with no manual type annotation, and that the inferred types
enable effective static compilation. },
note = "Acceptance Rate 25.6\% (52/203).",
}