Summary:
The overall operation of the quantifier elimination algorithm in
Sh.simplify is to first descend through the disjunctive structure of a
symbolic heap formula, process the leaves, and then proceed back up
the formula. At each point on the way back up, the first-order solver
is used to compute a solution substitution representing witnesses of
existential variables. This substitution is then used to normalize the
entire subformula at that point. Note that this results in
substituting and normalizing each subformula a number of times
proportional to its depth in the disjunctive structure.
This diff removes this redundancy and substitutes through each
subformula once. This is done by changing from an overall bottom-up to
top-down algorithm, and involves composing solution substitutions
rather than substituting multiple times. This change also heavily
relies on the strengthened Context.apply_and_elim operation, where the
bottom-up many-substitutions approach relies on the internal details
of repeated substitutions.
Reviewed By: jvillard
Differential Revision: D25756549
fbshipit-source-id: ca7cd814a
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Josh Berdine4 years agocommitted byFacebook GitHub Bot