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Reversible Programming: A Case Study of Two String-Matching Algorithms
String matching is a fundamental problem in algorithm. This study examines
the development and construction of two reversible string-matching algorithms:
a naive string-matching algorithm and the Rabin-Karp algorithm. The algorithms
are used to introduce reversible computing concepts, beginning from basic
reversible programming techniques to more advanced considerations about the
injectivization of the polynomial hash-update function employed by the
Rabin-Karp algorithm. The results are two clean input-preserving reversible
algorithms that require no additional space and have the same asymptotic time
complexity as their classic irreversible originals. This study aims to
contribute to the body of reversible algorithms and to the discipline of
reversible programming.Comment: In Proceedings HCVS/VPT 2022, arXiv:2211.1067