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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 12, 2013
Filed:
Oct. 07, 2008
Sumit Gulwani, Redmond, WA (US);
Krishna Kumar Mehra, Bangalore, IN;
Trishul a Chilimbi, Seattle, WA (US);
Sumit Gulwani, Redmond, WA (US);
Krishna Kumar Mehra, Bangalore, IN;
Trishul A Chilimbi, Seattle, WA (US);
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
Bounding resource consumption of code that processes recursive data structures and collections includes making use of quantitative functions (based on user input) that are associated with a tuple of data-structures and whose semantics is specified by describing the effect of various data-structure methods on the relevant quantitative functions. Counter variables are incorporated into source code to count loop iterations (and number of recursive procedure call invocations). Relevant quantitative functions are incorporated into the source code to allow computation of invariants (and hence bounds) on the incorporated counter variables in terms of the quantitative functions.