Yearbook · all 30 papers

pldb yearbook

PLDI Class of '92

30 graduates · cited 591× within PLDB

Most Likely to Succeed

A Safe Approximate Algorithm for Interprocedural Pointer Aliasing

cited 101× within PLDB · Landi & Ryder

Valedictorian

Lazy Code Motion

Most Influential PLDI Paper (awarded 2002) · Knoop et al.

Late Bloomer

Debugging Optimized Code with Dynamic Deoptimization

half of its 80 citations came 21+ years after it graduated · Hölzle et al.

Teacher's Pet

Rematerialization

cites 7 other PLDI papers · Briggs et al.

Biggest Group Project

Register Allocation for Software Pipelined Loops

4 authors · Rau et al.

Class Clown

A Retargetable Debugger

third-shortest title in the class: 23 characters · Ramsey & Hanson

Prom Couple

How to Analyze Large Programs Efficiently and… & Lazy Code Motion

cited together by 18 papers · Dhamdhere et al.; Knoop et al.

Ghosted

3% of the class (1 of 30)

never cited within PLDB. No names. We're not monsters.

pldb.kirancodes.me/fun/yearbook · within PLDB

‹ Class of '91 (1991) Class of '93 (1993) ›

Citations are between papers within PLDB, one per pair, newer versions of the same paper excluded. Late Bloomer needs 5+ citations; Ghosted is hidden for the last three classes, who are still being read. Older classes have thinner citation data.