Extended Abstract: Affine killing

Speculative, parallel abstractions allow that, once a result is computed, the remaining (unnecessary) speculative computations can be safely stopped. However, it is difficult to know when it is safe to stop an ongoing computation. This paper presents a refinement of the parallel speculative ParT abstraction [3] with an affine type system that allows in-place updates, and killing speculative computations using thread-local reasoning. There is ongoing work to prove the soundness of the calculus and implement it in the Encore language [1]. CCS Concepts • Theory of computation→ Functional constructs; Type structures; Parallel computing models; Type theory;