Infinite loops make applications unresponsive. Potential problems include lost work or output, denied access to application functionality, and a lack of responses to urgent events. We present Jolt, a novel system for dynamically detecting and escaping infinite loops. At the user’s request, Jolt attaches to an application to monitor its progress. Specifically, Jolt records the program state at t...

We construct several new classes of transcendental entire functions, f , such that both the escaping set, I ( f ), and the fast escaping set, A( f ), have a structure known as a spider’s web. We show that some of these classes have a degree of stability under changes in the function. We show that new examples of functions for which I ( f ) and A( f ) are spiders’ webs can be constructed by comp...

We construct several new classes of transcendental entire functions, f , such that both the escaping set, I ( f ), and the fast escaping set, A( f ), have a structure known as a spider’s web. We show that some of these classes have a degree of stability under changes in the function. We show that new examples of functions for which I ( f ) and A( f ) are spiders’ webs can be constructed by comp...