Yearbook · all 31 papers

pldb yearbook

PLDI Class of '97

31 graduates · cited 442× within PLDB

Most Likely to Succeed & Valedictorian

Exploiting Hardware Performance Counters with Flow and Context Sensitive Profiling

cited 75× within PLDB; Most Influential PLDI Paper (awarded 2007) · Ammons et al.

Late Bloomer

Dynamic Feedback: An Effective Technique for Adaptive Computing

half of its 16 citations came 13+ years after it graduated · Diniz & Rinard

Teacher's Pet

Call-Cost Directed Register Allocation

cites 10 other PLDI papers · Lueh & Gross

Biggest Group Project

A New Algorithm for Partial Redundancy Elimination based on SSA Form

6 authors · Chow et al.

Class Clown

Code Compression

shortest title in the class: 16 characters · Ernst et al.

Prom Couple

Componential Set-Based Analysis & Linear-time Subtransitive Control Flow Analysis

cited together by 7 papers · Flanagan & Felleisen; Heintze & McAllester

Ghosted

Nobody.

Every paper in the class has been cited within PLDB. Wholesome.

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

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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.