Implementation of BT-trees

Great paper by Lars F. Bonnichsen, Christian W. Probst, Sven Karlsson:

This document presents the full implementation details of BT-trees, a highly efficient ordered map, and an evaluation which compares BT-trees with unordered maps. BT- trees are often much faster than other ordered maps, and have comparable performance to unordered map implementations. However, in benchmarks which favor unordered maps, BT-trees are not faster than the fastest unordered map implementations we know of.

Boolean function for the rescue

The problem is defined as follows: a set of features is saved using bit-sets (usually large), and there is a list/map/whatever of sets containing features of different objects. We have to find which features are unique. Read more...

Big progress in verification

Formal verification is not easy task, for example ComCert compiler is able to verify, that optimizations haven't modified semantic of a program. Paper Verified correctness and security of OpenSSL HMAC describes verification of the whole "stack":

We have proved, with machine-checked proofs in Coq, that an OpenSSL implementation of HMAC with SHA-256 correctly implements its FIPS functional specification and that its functional specification guarantees the expected cryptographic properties. This is the first machine-checked cryptographic proof that combines a source-program implementation proof, a compiler-correctness proof, and a cryptographic-security proof, with no gaps at the specification interfaces.