SPLASH 2026
Sun 4 - Fri 9 October 2026 Oakland, California, United States
co-located with SPLASH/ISSTA 2026

This program is tentative and subject to change.

Mon 5 Oct 2026 16:24 - 16:42 at East Hall 2 - Effects, Capabilities, and Immutability Chair(s): Alex Potanin

There exist many techniques for automatically deriving parametric resource (or cost) bounds by analyzing the source code of a program. These techniques work effectively for a large class of programs and language features. However, non-local transfer of control as needed for exception handlers or algebraic effects has remained a challenge.

This paper presents the first automatic resource bound analysis that supports non-local control transfer between exceptions or effects and their handlers. The analysis is an extension of type-based automatic amortized resource analysis (AARA), which automates the potential method of amortized analysis. It is presented for a simple functional language with lists and linear potential functions. However, the ideas are directly applicable to richer settings and implemented for SML and polynomial potential functions.

Apart from the new type system for exceptions and algebraic effects, a main contribution is a novel syntactic type-soundness theorem that establishes the correctness of the derived bounds with respect to a stack-based abstract machine. An experimental evaluation shows that the new analysis is capable of analyzing programs that cannot be analyzed by existing methods and that the efficiency overhead of supporting exception and effect handlers is low.

This program is tentative and subject to change.

Mon 5 Oct

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15:30 - 17:00
Effects, Capabilities, and ImmutabilityOOPSLA at East Hall 2
Chair(s): Alex Potanin Australian National University
15:30
18m
Talk
Revisiting Row Polymorphism for Set-Theoretic Types
OOPSLA
Mickaël Laurent Sorbonne Université — LIP6, Pierre Donat-Bouillud Czech Technical University in Prague, Filip Křikava Czech Technical University in Prague, Jan Vitek Northeastern University
15:48
18m
Talk
Type, Ability, and Effect Systems: Perspectives on Purity, Semantics, and Expressiveness
OOPSLA
Yuyan Bao Augusta University, Tiark Rompf Purdue University
16:06
18m
Talk
Transitive, Abstract, and Class Polymorphic Immutability
OOPSLA
Aosen Xiong University of Waterloo, Yudi Bai University of Waterloo, Haifeng Shi University of Waterloo, Lian Sun University of Waterloo, Mier Ta University of Waterloo, Werner Dietl University of Waterloo
16:24
18m
Talk
Handling Exceptions and Effects with Automatic Resource Analysis
OOPSLA
Ethan Chu Carnegie Mellon University, Jan Hoffmann Carnegie Mellon University, Yiyang Guo Carnegie Mellon University