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I have officially published my doctoral thesis “ Lazy Evaluation: From natural semantics to a machine-checked compiler transformation” (DOI: 10.5445/IR/1000054251). The abstract of the 226 page long document that earned me a “summa cum laude” reads

In order to solve a long-standing problem with list fusion, a new compiler transformation, ‘Call Arity’ is developed and implemented in the Haskell compiler GHC. It is formally proven to not degrade program performance; the proof is machine-checked using the interactive theorem prover Isabelle. To that end, a formalization of Launchbury`s Natural Semantics for Lazy Evaluation is modelled in Isabelle, including a correctness and adequacy proof.

and I assembled all relevant artefacts (the thesis itself, its LaTeX-sources, the Isabelle theories, various patches against GHC, raw benchmark results, errata etc.) at http://www.joachim-breitner.de/thesis/.

Other, less retrospective news: My paper on the Incredible Proof Machine got accepted at ITP in Nancy, and I was invited to give a keynote demo about the proof machine at LFMTP in Porto. Exciting!