[2605.19005] Rewrite System Showdown: Stochastic Search vs. EqSat

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[Submitted on 18 May 2026]

Title:Rewrite System Showdown: Stochastic Search vs. EqSat

Authors:Qiantan Hong, Rupanshu Soi, Yihong Zhang, Alex Aiken<br>View a PDF of the paper titled Rewrite System Showdown: Stochastic Search vs. EqSat, by Qiantan Hong and 3 other authors

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Abstract:Equality saturation has become a dominant paradigm for equational program optimization. However, it has never been rigorously compared to another approach to the same problem, even though several exist, the most notable being stochastic search. In this paper, we compare equality saturation to stochastic search over five benchmarks to answer the question: are e-graphs actually good?

Comments:<br>To be presented at EGRAPHS 2026

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Programming Languages (cs.PL)

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(or<br>arXiv:2605.19005v1 [cs.PL] for this version)

https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2605.19005

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Submission history<br>From: Yihong Zhang [view email]<br>[v1]<br>Mon, 18 May 2026 18:27:33 UTC (324 KB)

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