Extracting and optimizing low-level bytecode from high-level verified Coq

This electronic version was submitted by the student author. The certified thesis is available in the Institute Archives and Special Collections.Thesis: M. Eng., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 2019Cataloged from student-submitted PDF version of thesis.Includes bibliographical references (pages 51-53).This document is an MEng thesis presenting MCQC, a compiler for extracting verified systems programs to low-level assembly, with no Runtime or Garbage Collection requirements and an emphasis on performance. MCQC targets the Gallina functional language used in the Coq proof assistant. MCQC translates pure and recursive functions into C++17, while compiling monadic effectful functions to imperative C++ system calls. With a series of memory and performance optimizations, MCQC combines verifiability with memory and runtime performance. By handling effectful and pure functions MCQC can generate executable code directly from Gallina and link it with trusted code, reducing the effort of implementing and executing verified systems.by Eleftherios Ioannidis.M. Eng.M.Eng. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Scienc