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Real-Time Methods in Reversible Computation

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Reversible Computation (RC 2015)

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Bennett has shown how to simulate arbitrary forwards-only computations by fully reversible computation. In particular he has given a space-efficient linear time simulation. After describing a different linear-time reversible simulation with improved space efficiency, we initiate the study of real-time simulations. In addition to being linear-time, these must offer continuous progress, meaning that the delay between successive forward events must be bounded by a constant.

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  1. Imperial College London, London, UK

    Tommi Pesu & Iain Phillips

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  1. CNRS and Université Paris Diderot, Paris, France

    Jean Krivine

  2. Inria, St. Ismier Cedex, France

    Jean-Bernard Stefani

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Pesu, T., Phillips, I. (2015). Real-Time Methods in Reversible Computation. In: Krivine, J., Stefani, JB. (eds) Reversible Computation. RC 2015. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9138. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-20860-2_3

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