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Salcianu and Rinard present a compositional purity analysis that computes a summary for every procedure describing its side-effects. In this paper, we formalize a generalization of this analysis as an abstract interpretation, present several optimizations and an empirical evaluation showing the value of these optimizations. The Salcianu-Rinard analysis makes use of abstract heap graphs, similar to...