Yearbook · all 29 papers

pldb yearbook

PLDI Class of '93

29 graduates · cited 721× within PLDB

Most Likely to Succeed

The Essence of Compiling with Continuations

cited 208× within PLDB · Flanagan et al.

Valedictorian

Space Efficient Conservative Garbage Collection

Most Influential PLDI Paper (awarded 2003) · Boehm

Late Bloomer

Implementing Type Classes

half of its 15 citations came 22+ years after it graduated · Peterson & Jones

Teacher's Pet

Load/Store Range Analysis for Global Register Allocation

cites 7 other PLDI papers · Kolte & Harrold

Biggest Group Project

Reverse If-Conversion

4 authors · Warter et al.

Class Clown

Branch Prediction For Free

“for free”, a classic bit · Ball & Larus

Prom Couple

Using Lifetime Predictors to Improve Memory… & Improving the Cache Locality of Memory…

cited together by 6 papers · Barrett & Zorn; Grunwald et al.

Ghosted

3% of the class (1 of 29)

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

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

‹ Class of '92 (1992) Class of '94 (1994) ›

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.