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On the complexity analysis of static analyses

McAllester, 2002

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Journal of the ACM (JACM)

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This paper argues that for many algorithms, and static analysis algorithms in particular, bottom-up logic program presentations are clearer and simpler to analyze, for both correctness and complexity, than classical pseudo-code presentations. The main technical …
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