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        {\bf \CFA{} Type System Implementation }

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        by \\

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        Aaron Moss \\

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        A thesis \\
        presented to the University of Waterloo \\ 
        in fulfillment of the \\
        thesis requirement for the degree of \\
        Doctor of Philosophy \\
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        Computer Science \\

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        Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, 2019 \\

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        \copyright\ Aaron Moss 2019 \\
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\begin{center}\textbf{Examining Committee Membership}\end{center}
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  The following served on the Examining Committee for this thesis. The decision of the Examining Committee is by majority vote.
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I hereby declare that I am the sole author of this thesis. This is a true copy of the thesis, including any required final revisions, as accepted by my examiners.

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I understand that my thesis may be made electronically available to the public.

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\begin{center}\textbf{Abstract}\end{center}

        The C programming language has been an important software development tool for decades.
        \CFA{} is a new programming language designed with strong backwards-compatibility to take advantage of widely distributed C programming expertise and the large deployed base of C code, paired with modern language features to improve developer productivity. 
        
        This thesis presents a number of improvements to \CFA{}. 
        The author has developed one major new language feature, generic types, in a way that integrates naturally with both the existing polymorphism features of \CFA{} and the translation-unit-based encapsulation model of C. 
        This thesis also presents a number of smaller refinements to the \CFA{} overload resolution rules, each of which improves the expressivity or intuitive nature of the language. 
        
        This thesis also includes a number of practical improvements to \CFA{} compilation performance, focused on the expression resolution pass which is the main bottleneck. 
        These include better algorithms for argument-parameter matching and type assertion satisfaction, as well as a new type environment data structure based on a novel variant of union-find. 
        The compilation performance improvements have all been experimentally validated with a new prototype system which encapsulates the key aspects of the \CFA{} language; this prototype is a promising basis for future research, and is a technical contribution of this work.

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