Stephen M. Blackburn

100 papers A* 13A 11B 10C 19Misc 1Journal 19Unranked 25

Year	Rank	Type	Title / Venue / Authors
2026	A	`ed.`	IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Code Generation and Optimization, CGO 2026, Sydney, Australia, January 31 - Feb. 4, 2026 CGO Stephen M. Blackburn, Albert Cohen, Timothy M. Jones
2025	J	`jnl`	Advancing Performance via a Systematic Application of Research and Industrial Best Practice. Proc. ACM Program. Lang. Wenyu Zhao, Stephen M. Blackburn, Kathryn S. McKinley, Man Cao, Sara S. Hamouda
2025	J	`jnl`	Iso: Request-Private Garbage Collection. Proc. ACM Program. Lang. Tianle Qiu, Stephen M. Blackburn
2025	C	`conf`	Reconsidering Garbage Collection in Julia: A Practitioner Report. ISMM Luís Eduardo de Souza Amorim, Yi Lin, Stephen M. Blackburn, Diogo Netto, Gabriel Baraldi, Nathan Daly, Antony L. Hosking, Kiran Pamnany, Oscar Smith
2025	—	`conf`	Rethinking Java Performance Analysis. ASPLOS (1) Stephen M. Blackburn, Zixian Cai, Rui Chen, Xi Yang, John Zhang, John N. Zigman
2025	C	`conf`	Reworking Memory Management in CRuby: A Practitioner Report. ISMM Kunshan Wang, Stephen M. Blackburn, Peter Zhu, Matthew Valentine-House
2025	J	`jnl`	Work Packets: A New Abstraction for GC Software Engineering, Optimization, and Innovation. Proc. ACM Program. Lang. Wenyu Zhao, Stephen M. Blackburn, Kathryn S. McKinley
2024	C	`conf`	Memory Management on Mobile Devices. ISMM Kunal Sareen, Stephen M. Blackburn, Sara S. Hamouda, Lokesh Gidra
2023	C	`conf`	Improving Garbage Collection Observability with Performance Tracing. MPLR Claire Huang, Stephen M. Blackburn, Zixian Cai
2023	—	`conf`	Linear-Mark: Locality vs. Accuracy in Mark-Sweep Garbage Collection. MEMSYS Chiara Meiohas, Stephen M. Blackburn, Erez Petrank
2023	C	`ed.`	Proceedings of the 2023 ACM SIGPLAN International Symposium on Memory Management, ISMM 2023, Orlando, FL, USA, 18 June 2023 ISMM Stephen M. Blackburn, Erez Petrank
2022	B	`conf`	Distilling the Real Cost of Production Garbage Collectors. ISPASS Zixian Cai, Stephen M. Blackburn, Michael D. Bond, Martin Maas
2022	J	`jnl`	Low-Latency, High-Throughput Garbage Collection (Extended Version). CoRR Wenyu Zhao, Stephen M. Blackburn, Kathryn S. McKinley
2022	A*	`conf`	Low-latency, high-throughput garbage collection. PLDI Wenyu Zhao, Stephen M. Blackburn, Kathryn S. McKinley
2022	A*	`conf`	Mako: a low-pause, high-throughput evacuating collector for memory-disaggregated datacenters. PLDI Haoran Ma, Shi Liu, Chenxi Wang, Yifan Qiao, Michael D. Bond, Stephen M. Blackburn, Miryung Kim, Guoqing Harry Xu
2022	C	`conf`	Towards a Model Checking Framework for a New Collector Framework. MPLR Bochen Xu, Eliot Moss, Stephen M. Blackburn
2021	J	`jnl`	Distilling the Real Cost of Production Garbage Collectors. CoRR Zixian Cai, Stephen M. Blackburn, Michael D. Bond, Martin Maas
2021	C	`conf`	Understanding and utilizing hardware transactional memory capacity. ISMM Zixian Cai, Stephen M. Blackburn, Michael D. Bond
2020	B	`conf`	Deconstructing the garbage-first collector. VEE Wenyu Zhao, Stephen M. Blackburn
2020	C	`conf`	Garbage collection: implementation, innovation, performance, and security (keynote). MPLR Stephen M. Blackburn
2019	J	`jnl`	Author Growth Outstrips Publication Growth in Computer Science and Publication Quality Correlates with Collaboration. CoRR Stephen M. Blackburn, Kathryn S. McKinley, Lexing Xie
2019	C	`conf`	Design and analysis of field-logging write barriers. ISMM Stephen M. Blackburn
2019	—	`conf`	Designing a low-level virtual machine for implementing real-time managed languages. VMIL@SPLASH Javad Ebrahimian Amiri, Stephen M. Blackburn, Antony L. Hosking, Michael Norrish
2019	J	`jnl`	GOTO rankings considered helpful. Commun. ACM Emery D. Berger, Stephen M. Blackburn, Carla E. Brodley, H. V. Jagadish, Kathryn S. McKinley, Mario A. Nascimento, Minjeong Shin, Kuansan Wang, Lexing Xie
2019	—	`conf`	Influence Flowers of Academic Entities. VAST Minjeong Shin, Alexander Soen, Benjamin T. Readshaw, Stephen M. Blackburn, Mitchell Whitelaw, Lexing Xie
2019	J	`jnl`	Influence Flowers of Academic Entities. CoRR Minjeong Shin, Alexander Soen, Benjamin T. Readshaw, Stephen M. Blackburn, Mitchell Whitelaw, Lexing Xie
2018	J	`jnl`	GOTO Rankings Considered Helpful. CoRR Emery D. Berger, Stephen M. Blackburn, Carla E. Brodley, H. V. Jagadish, Kathryn S. McKinley, Mario A. Nascimento, Minjeong Shin, Lexing Xie
2018	B	`conf`	Hop, Skip, & Jump: Practical On-Stack Replacement for a Cross-Platform Language-Neutral VM. VEE Kunshan Wang, Stephen M. Blackburn, Antony L. Hosking, Michael Norrish
2017	—	`ed.`	Proceedings of the 9th ACM SIGPLAN International Workshop on Virtual Machines and Intermediate Languages, Vancouver, BC, Canada, October 23 - 27, 2017 VMIL@SPLASH Stephen M. Blackburn, Christoph Bockisch, Michael Haupt, Tony Hosking, Hridesh Rajan, Witawas Srisa-an, Matthias Grimmer, Adam Welc
2016	—	`conf`	Elfen Scheduling: Fine-Grain Principled Borrowing from Latency-Critical Workloads Using Simultaneous Multithreading. USENIX ATC Xi Yang, Stephen M. Blackburn, Kathryn S. McKinley
2016	—	`conf`	Integrating Asynchronous Task Parallelism and Data-centric Atomicity. PPPJ Vivek Kumar, Julian Dolby, Stephen M. Blackburn
2016	A	`conf`	Portable performance on asymmetric multicore processors. CGO Ivan Jibaja, Ting Cao, Stephen M. Blackburn, Kathryn S. McKinley
2016	C	`conf`	Rust as a language for high performance GC implementation. ISMM Yi Lin, Stephen M. Blackburn, Antony L. Hosking, Michael Norrish
2016	J	`jnl`	The Truth, The Whole Truth, and Nothing But the Truth: A Pragmatic Guide to Assessing Empirical Evaluations. ACM Trans. Program. Lang. Syst. Stephen M. Blackburn, Amer Diwan, Matthias Hauswirth, Peter F. Sweeney, José Nelson Amaral, Tim Brecht, Lubomír Bulej, Cliff Click, Lieven Eeckhout, Sebastian Fischmeister, Daniel Frampton, Laurie J. Hendren, Michael Hind, Antony L. Hosking, Richard E. Jones, Tomas Kalibera, Nathan Keynes, Nathaniel Nystrom, Andreas Zeller
2015	A*	`conf`	Computer performance microscopy with Shim. ISCA Xi Yang, Stephen M. Blackburn, Kathryn S. McKinley
2015	—	`conf`	Draining the Swamp: Micro Virtual Machines as Solid Foundation for Language Development. SNAPL Kunshan Wang, Yi Lin, Stephen M. Blackburn, Michael Norrish, Antony L. Hosking
2015	A*	`ed.`	Proceedings of the 36th ACM SIGPLAN Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation, Portland, OR, USA, June 15-17, 2015 PLDI David Grove, Stephen M. Blackburn
2015	C	`conf`	Stop and go: understanding yieldpoint behavior. ISMM Yi Lin, Kunshan Wang, Stephen M. Blackburn, Antony L. Hosking, Michael Norrish
2015	B	`conf`	Vector Parallelism in JavaScript: Language and Compiler Support for SIMD. PACT Ivan Jibaja, Peter Jensen, Ningxin Hu, Mohammad R. Haghighat, John McCutchan, Dan Gohman, Stephen M. Blackburn, Kathryn S. McKinley
2014	B	`conf`	Cooperative cache scrubbing. PACT Jennifer B. Sartor, Wim Heirman, Stephen M. Blackburn, Lieven Eeckhout, Kathryn S. McKinley
2014	A	`conf`	Fast conservative garbage collection. OOPSLA Rifat Shahriyar, Stephen M. Blackburn, Kathryn S. McKinley
2014	B	`conf`	Friendly barriers: efficient work-stealing with return barriers. VEE Vivek Kumar, Stephen M. Blackburn, David Grove
2013	B	`ed.`	ACM SIGPLAN/SIGOPS International Conference on Virtual Execution Environments (co-located with ASPLOS 2013), VEE '13, Houston, TX, USA, March 16-17, 2013 VEE Steve Muir, Gernot Heiser, Stephen M. Blackburn
2013	A	`conf`	Taking off the gloves with reference counting Immix. OOPSLA Rifat Shahriyar, Stephen M. Blackburn, Xi Yang, Kathryn S. McKinley
2013	A*	`conf`	Using managed runtime systems to tolerate holes in wearable memories. PLDI Tiejun Gao, Karin Strauss, Stephen M. Blackburn, Kathryn S. McKinley, Doug Burger, James R. Larus
2012	—	`conf`	6th workshop on virtual machines and intermediate languages (VMIL'12). SPLASH Hridesh Rajan, Michael Haupt, Christoph Bockisch, Stephen M. Blackburn
2012	C	`conf`	Barriers reconsidered, friendlier still! ISMM Xi Yang, Stephen M. Blackburn, Daniel Frampton, Antony L. Hosking
2012	—	`conf`	Bypassing portability pitfalls of high-level low-level programming. VMIL@SPLASH Yi Lin, Stephen M. Blackburn
2012	C	`conf`	Down for the count? Getting reference counting back in the ring. ISMM Rifat Shahriyar, Stephen M. Blackburn, Daniel Frampton
2012	J	`jnl`	Looking back and looking forward: power, performance, and upheaval. Commun. ACM Hadi Esmaeilzadeh, Ting Cao, Xi Yang, Stephen M. Blackburn, Kathryn S. McKinley
2012	A*	`conf`	The Yin and Yang of power and performance for asymmetric hardware and managed software. ISCA Ting Cao, Stephen M. Blackburn, Tiejun Gao, Kathryn S. McKinley
2012	B	`conf`	Unpicking the knot: teasing apart VM/application interdependencies. VEE Yi Lin, Stephen M. Blackburn, Daniel Frampton
2012	J	`jnl`	What is Happening to Power, Performance, and Software? IEEE Micro Hadi Esmaeilzadeh, Ting Cao, Xi Yang, Stephen M. Blackburn, Kathryn S. McKinley
2012	A	`conf`	Work-stealing without the baggage. OOPSLA Vivek Kumar, Daniel Frampton, Stephen M. Blackburn, David Grove, Olivier Tardieu
2011	C	`conf`	A comprehensive evaluation of object scanning techniques. ISMM Robin Garner, Stephen M. Blackburn, Daniel Frampton
2011	—	`conf`	Deferred gratification: engineering for high performance garbage collection from the get go. MSPC Ivan Jibaja, Stephen M. Blackburn, Mohammad R. Haghighat, Kathryn S. McKinley
2011	A*	`conf`	Looking back on the language and hardware revolutions: measured power, performance, and scaling. ASPLOS Hadi Esmaeilzadeh, Ting Cao, Xi Yang, Stephen M. Blackburn, Kathryn S. McKinley
2011	A	`conf`	Why nothing matters: the impact of zeroing. OOPSLA Xi Yang, Stephen M. Blackburn, Daniel Frampton, Jennifer B. Sartor, Kathryn S. McKinley
2010	—	`conf`	Workshop on experimental evaluation of software and systems in computer science (Evaluate 2010). SPLASH/OOPSLA Companion Stephen M. Blackburn, Amer Diwan, Matthias Hauswirth, Atif M. Memon, Peter F. Sweeney
2010	A*	`conf`	Z-rays: divide arrays and conquer speed and flexibility. PLDI Jennifer B. Sartor, Stephen M. Blackburn, Daniel Frampton, Martin Hirzel, Kathryn S. McKinley
2009	A	`conf`	A concurrent dynamic analysis framework for multicore hardware. OOPSLA Jungwoo Ha, Matthew Arnold, Stephen M. Blackburn, Kathryn S. McKinley
2009	B	`conf`	Demystifying magic: high-level low-level programming. VEE Daniel Frampton, Stephen M. Blackburn, Perry Cheng, Robin Garner, David Grove, J. Eliot B. Moss, Sergey I. Salishev
2008	A*	`conf`	Immix: a mark-region garbage collector with space efficiency, fast collection, and mutator performance. PLDI Stephen M. Blackburn, Kathryn S. McKinley
2008	J	`jnl`	International symposium of memory management (ISMM 2008). ACM SIGPLAN Notices Richard E. Jones, Stephen M. Blackburn
2008	C	`ed.`	Proceedings of the 7th International Symposium on Memory Management, ISMM 2008, Tucson, AZ, USA, June 7-8, 2008 ISMM Richard E. Jones, Stephen M. Blackburn
2008	J	`jnl`	Wake up and smell the coffee: evaluation methodology for the 21st century. Commun. ACM Stephen M. Blackburn, Kathryn S. McKinley, Robin Garner, Chris Hoffmann, Asjad M. Khan, Rotem Bentzur, Amer Diwan, Daniel Feinberg, Daniel Frampton, Samuel Z. Guyer, Martin Hirzel, Antony L. Hosking, Maria Jump, Han Lee, J. Eliot B. Moss, Aashish Phansalkar, Darko Stefanovic, Thomas VanDrunen, Daniel von Dincklage, Ben Wiedermann
2007	C	`conf`	Effective prefetch for mark-sweep garbage collection. ISMM Robin Garner, Stephen M. Blackburn, Daniel Frampton
2007	J	`jnl`	Opportunistic prioritised clustering framework for improving OODBMS performance. J. Syst. Softw. Zhen He, Richard Lai, Alonso Marquez, Stephen M. Blackburn
2007	J	`jnl`	Profile-based pretenuring. ACM Trans. Program. Lang. Syst. Stephen M. Blackburn, Matthew Hertz, Kathryn S. McKinley, J. Eliot B. Moss, Ting Yang
2006	C	`conf`	Fast and efficient partial code reordering: taking advantage of dynamic recompilatior. ISMM Xianglong Huang, Stephen M. Blackburn, David Grove, Kathryn S. McKinley
2006	J	`jnl`	Generating object lifetime traces with Merlin. ACM Trans. Program. Lang. Syst. Matthew Hertz, Stephen M. Blackburn, J. Eliot B. Moss, Kathryn S. McKinley, Darko Stefanovic
2006	A	`conf`	The DaCapo benchmarks: java benchmarking development and analysis. OOPSLA Stephen M. Blackburn, Robin Garner, Chris Hoffmann, Asjad M. Khan, Kathryn S. McKinley, Rotem Bentzur, Amer Diwan, Daniel Feinberg, Daniel Frampton, Samuel Z. Guyer, Martin Hirzel, Antony L. Hosking, Maria Jump, Han Bok Lee, J. Eliot B. Moss, Aashish Phansalkar, Darko Stefanovic, Thomas VanDrunen, Daniel von Dincklage, Ben Wiedermann
2005	B	`conf`	Age-Oriented Concurrent Garbage Collection. CC Harel Paz, Erez Petrank, Stephen M. Blackburn
2005	J	`jnl`	The Jikes Research Virtual Machine project: Building an open-source research community. IBM Syst. J. Bowen Alpern, Steve Augart, Stephen M. Blackburn, Maria A. Butrico, Anthony Cocchi, Perry Cheng, Julian Dolby, Stephen J. Fink, David Grove, Michael Hind, Kathryn S. McKinley, Mark F. Mergen, J. Eliot B. Moss, Ton Anh Ngo, Vivek Sarkar, Martin Trapp
2004	C	`conf`	Barriers: friend or foe? ISMM Stephen M. Blackburn, Antony L. Hosking
2004	C	`conf`	Dynamic object sampling for pretenuring. ISMM Maria Jump, Stephen M. Blackburn, Kathryn S. McKinley
2004	A*	`conf`	Myths and realities: the performance impact of garbage collection. SIGMETRICS Stephen M. Blackburn, Perry Cheng, Kathryn S. McKinley
2004	A*	`conf`	Oil and Water? High Performance Garbage Collection in Java with MMTk. ICSE Stephen M. Blackburn, Perry Cheng, Kathryn S. McKinley
2004	—	`ed.`	Proceedings of the 2004 workshop on Memory System Performance, Washington, DC, USA, June 8, 2004 Memory System Performance Chen Ding, Stephen M. Blackburn
2004	A	`conf`	The garbage collection advantage: improving program locality. OOPSLA Xianglong Huang, Stephen M. Blackburn, Kathryn S. McKinley, J. Eliot B. Moss, Zhenlin Wang, Perry Cheng
2003	A	`conf`	Ulterior reference counting: fast garbage collection without a long wait. OOPSLA Stephen M. Blackburn, Kathryn S. McKinley
2002	A*	`conf`	Beltway: Getting Around Garbage Collection Gridlock. PLDI Stephen M. Blackburn, Richard E. Jones, Kathryn S. McKinley, J. Eliot B. Moss
2002	A*	`conf`	Error-free garbage collection traces: how to cheat and not get caught. SIGMETRICS Matthew Hertz, Stephen M. Blackburn, J. Eliot B. Moss, Kathryn S. McKinley, Darko Stefanovic
2002	—	`conf`	In or out?: putting write barriers in their place. MSP/ISMM Stephen M. Blackburn, Kathryn S. McKinley
2002	—	`conf`	Older-first garbage collection in practice: evaluation in Java Virtual Machine. MSP/ISMM Darko Stefanovic, Matthew Hertz, Stephen M. Blackburn, Kathryn S. McKinley, J. Eliot B. Moss
2001	A	`conf`	Pretenuring for Java. OOPSLA Stephen M. Blackburn, Sharad Singhai, Matthew Hertz, Kathryn S. McKinley, J. Eliot B. Moss
2001	—	`conf`	Starting with Termination: A Methodology for Building Distributed Garbage Collection Algorithms. ACSC Stephen M. Blackburn, J. Eliot B. Moss, Richard L. Hudson, Ronald Morrison, David S. Munro, John N. Zigman
2000	J	`jnl`	Fast portable orthogonally persistent Java. Softw. Pract. Exp. Alonso Marquez, John N. Zigman, Stephen M. Blackburn
2000	—	`conf`	Implementing Orthogonally Persistent Java. POS Alonso Marquez, Stephen M. Blackburn, Gavin Mercer, John N. Zigman
2000	—	`conf`	Opportunistic Prioritised Clustering Framework (OPCF). Objects and Databases Zhen He, Alonso Marquez, Stephen M. Blackburn
2000	—	`conf`	Platypus: Design and Implementation of a Flexible High Performance Object Store. POS Zhen He, Stephen M. Blackburn, Luke Kirby, John N. Zigman
2000	—	`conf`	Profile-driven pretenuring for Java (poster session). OOPSLA Addendum Stephen M. Blackburn, John Cavazos, Sharad Singhai, Asjad M. Khan, Kathryn S. McKinley, J. Eliot B. Moss, Sara Smolensky
2000	—	`conf`	Session 2: Overview. POS Stephen M. Blackburn
2000	—	`conf`	TMOS: A Transactional Garbage Collector. POS John N. Zigman, Stephen M. Blackburn, J. Eliot B. Moss
1998	—	`conf`	Concurrency - The Fly in the Ointment? POS/PJW Stephen M. Blackburn, John N. Zigman
1998	—	`conf`	Java Finalize Method, Orthogonal Persistence and Transactions. POS/PJW John N. Zigman, Stephen M. Blackburn
1998	—	`conf`	The Transactional Object Cache: A Foundation for High Performance Persistent System Construction. POS/PJW Stephen M. Blackburn, Robin B. Stanton
1997	—	`conf`	Recovery and Page Coherency for a Scalable Multicomputer Object Store. HICSS (1) Stephen M. Blackburn, Robin B. Stanton, Stephan J. G. Scheuerl
1996	—	`conf`	Multicomputer Object Stores: The Multicomputer Texas Experiment. POS Stephen M. Blackburn, Robin B. Stanton
1992	Misc	`conf`	Extraction of Color Region Boundaries. MVA Stephen M. Blackburn