Published on: 2025-06-27 04:04:22
No, this isn’t about formally verifying benchmarking (BM) crimes. It’s about the use of misleading statistics in papers that apply formal methods (FM) to verify (prove correct) operating systems (OS) code – something that has been bugging me for a while. Name Language Spec. Lang. Proof:Code seL4 C+Asm Isabelle 20:1 CertiKOS C+Asm Coq 15:1 SeKVM C+Asm Coq 7:1 Ironclad Dafny Dafny 5:1 XXX Rust Verus 10:1 YYY Rust Verus 7.5:1 Table 1: Language and (incomplete) proof-size statistics of a number o
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