Stephen M. Blackburn

Publication Activity (10 Years)

Years Active: 1992-2024
Publications (10 Years): 25

Top Topics

Multicore Processors

Virtual Machine

Top Venues

Publications

Kunal Sareen, Stephen M. Blackburn, Sara S. Hamouda, Lokesh Gidra
Memory Management on Mobile Devices. ISMM (2024)
Claire Huang, Stephen M. Blackburn, Zixian Cai
Improving Garbage Collection Observability with Performance Tracing. MPLR (2023)
Chiara Meiohas, Stephen M. Blackburn, Erez Petrank
Linear-Mark: Locality vs. Accuracy in Mark-Sweep Garbage Collection. MEMSYS (2023)
Bochen Xu, Eliot Moss, Stephen M. Blackburn
Towards a Model Checking Framework for a New Collector Framework. MPLR (2022)
Zixian Cai, Stephen M. Blackburn, Michael D. Bond, Martin Maas
Distilling the Real Cost of Production Garbage Collectors. ISPASS (2022)
Haoran Ma, Shi Liu, Chenxi Wang, Yifan Qiao, Michael D. Bond, Stephen M. Blackburn, Miryung Kim, Guoqing Harry Xu
Mako: a low-pause, high-throughput evacuating collector for memory-disaggregated datacenters. PLDI (2022)
Wenyu Zhao, Stephen M. Blackburn, Kathryn S. McKinley
Low-Latency, High-Throughput Garbage Collection (Extended Version). CoRR (2022)
Wenyu Zhao, Stephen M. Blackburn, Kathryn S. McKinley
Low-latency, high-throughput garbage collection. PLDI (2022)
Zixian Cai, Stephen M. Blackburn, Michael D. Bond, Martin Maas
An Empirical Lower Bound on the Overheads of Production Garbage Collectors. CoRR (2021)
Zixian Cai, Stephen M. Blackburn, Michael D. Bond
Understanding and utilizing hardware transactional memory capacity. ISMM (2021)
Wenyu Zhao, Stephen M. Blackburn
Deconstructing the garbage-first collector. VEE (2020)
Stephen M. Blackburn
Garbage collection: implementation, innovation, performance, and security (keynote). MPLR (2020)
Javad Ebrahimian Amiri, Stephen M. Blackburn, Antony L. Hosking, Michael Norrish
Designing a low-level virtual machine for implementing real-time managed languages. VMIL@SPLASH (2019)
Minjeong Shin, Alexander Soen, Benjamin T. Readshaw, Stephen M. Blackburn, Mitchell Whitelaw, Lexing Xie
Influence Flowers of Academic Entities. VAST (2019)
Minjeong Shin, Alexander Soen, Benjamin T. Readshaw, Stephen M. Blackburn, Mitchell Whitelaw, Lexing Xie
Influence Flowers of Academic Entities. CoRR (2019)
Emery D. Berger, Stephen M. Blackburn, Carla E. Brodley, H. V. Jagadish, Kathryn S. McKinley, Mario A. Nascimento, Minjeong Shin, Kuansan Wang, Lexing Xie
GOTO rankings considered helpful. Commun. ACM 62 (7) (2019)
Stephen M. Blackburn, Kathryn S. McKinley, Lexing Xie
Author Growth Outstrips Publication Growth in Computer Science and Publication Quality Correlates with Collaboration. CoRR (2019)
Stephen M. Blackburn
Design and analysis of field-logging write barriers. ISMM (2019)
Emery D. Berger, Stephen M. Blackburn, Carla E. Brodley, H. V. Jagadish, Kathryn S. McKinley, Mario A. Nascimento, Minjeong Shin, Lexing Xie
GOTO Rankings Considered Helpful. CoRR (2018)
Kunshan Wang, Stephen M. Blackburn, Antony L. Hosking, Michael Norrish
Hop, Skip, & Jump: Practical On-Stack Replacement for a Cross-Platform Language-Neutral VM. VEE (2018)
Vivek Kumar, Julian Dolby, Stephen M. Blackburn
Integrating Asynchronous Task Parallelism and Data-centric Atomicity. PPPJ (2016)
Xi Yang, Stephen M. Blackburn, Kathryn S. McKinley
Elfen Scheduling: Fine-Grain Principled Borrowing from Latency-Critical Workloads Using Simultaneous Multithreading. USENIX Annual Technical Conference (2016)
Ivan Jibaja, Ting Cao, Stephen M. Blackburn, Kathryn S. McKinley
Portable performance on asymmetric multicore processors. CGO (2016)
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
The Truth, The Whole Truth, and Nothing But the Truth: A Pragmatic Guide to Assessing Empirical Evaluations. ACM Trans. Program. Lang. Syst. 38 (4) (2016)
Yi Lin, Stephen M. Blackburn, Antony L. Hosking, Michael Norrish
Rust as a language for high performance GC implementation. ISMM (2016)
Xi Yang, Stephen M. Blackburn, Kathryn S. McKinley
Computer performance microscopy with Shim. ISCA (2015)
Kunshan Wang, Yi Lin, Stephen M. Blackburn, Michael Norrish, Antony L. Hosking
Draining the Swamp: Micro Virtual Machines as Solid Foundation for Language Development. SNAPL (2015)
Yi Lin, Kunshan Wang, Stephen M. Blackburn, Antony L. Hosking, Michael Norrish
Stop and go: understanding yieldpoint behavior. ISMM (2015)
Ivan Jibaja, Peter Jensen, Ningxin Hu, Mohammad R. Haghighat, John McCutchan, Dan Gohman, Stephen M. Blackburn, Kathryn S. McKinley
Vector Parallelism in JavaScript: Language and Compiler Support for SIMD. PACT (2015)
Vivek Kumar, Stephen M. Blackburn, David Grove
Friendly barriers: efficient work-stealing with return barriers. VEE (2014)
Rifat Shahriyar, Stephen M. Blackburn, Kathryn S. McKinley
Fast conservative garbage collection. OOPSLA (2014)
Jennifer B. Sartor, Wim Heirman, Stephen M. Blackburn, Lieven Eeckhout, Kathryn S. McKinley
Cooperative cache scrubbing. PACT (2014)
Tiejun Gao, Karin Strauss, Stephen M. Blackburn, Kathryn S. McKinley, Doug Burger, James R. Larus
Using managed runtime systems to tolerate holes in wearable memories. PLDI (2013)
Rifat Shahriyar, Stephen M. Blackburn, Xi Yang, Kathryn S. McKinley
Taking off the gloves with reference counting Immix. OOPSLA (2013)
Ting Cao, Stephen M. Blackburn, Tiejun Gao, Kathryn S. McKinley
The Yin and Yang of power and performance for asymmetric hardware and managed software. ISCA (2012)
Xi Yang, Stephen M. Blackburn, Daniel Frampton, Antony L. Hosking
Barriers reconsidered, friendlier still! ISMM (2012)
Yi Lin, Stephen M. Blackburn, Daniel Frampton
Unpicking the knot: teasing apart VM/application interdependencies. VEE (2012)
Rifat Shahriyar, Stephen M. Blackburn, Daniel Frampton
Down for the count? Getting reference counting back in the ring. ISMM (2012)
Vivek Kumar, Daniel Frampton, Stephen M. Blackburn, David Grove, Olivier Tardieu
Work-stealing without the baggage. OOPSLA (2012)
Yi Lin, Stephen M. Blackburn
Bypassing portability pitfalls of high-level low-level programming. VMIL@SPLASH (2012)
Hadi Esmaeilzadeh, Ting Cao, Xi Yang, Stephen M. Blackburn, Kathryn S. McKinley
Looking back and looking forward: power, performance, and upheaval. Commun. ACM 55 (7) (2012)
Robin Garner, Stephen M. Blackburn, Daniel Frampton
A comprehensive evaluation of object scanning techniques. ISMM (2011)
Ivan Jibaja, Stephen M. Blackburn, Mohammad R. Haghighat, Kathryn S. McKinley
Deferred gratification: engineering for high performance garbage collection from the get go. MSPC (2011)
Xi Yang, Stephen M. Blackburn, Daniel Frampton, Jennifer B. Sartor, Kathryn S. McKinley
Why nothing matters: the impact of zeroing. OOPSLA (2011)
Hadi Esmaeilzadeh, Ting Cao, Xi Yang, Stephen M. Blackburn, Kathryn S. McKinley
Looking back on the language and hardware revolutions: measured power, performance, and scaling. ASPLOS (2011)
Jennifer B. Sartor, Stephen M. Blackburn, Daniel Frampton, Martin Hirzel, Kathryn S. McKinley
Z-rays: divide arrays and conquer speed and flexibility. PLDI (2010)
Stephen M. Blackburn, Amer Diwan, Matthias Hauswirth, Atif M. Memon, Peter F. Sweeney
Workshop on experimental evaluation of software and systems in computer science (Evaluate 2010). SPLASH/OOPSLA Companion (2010)
Daniel Frampton, Stephen M. Blackburn, Perry Cheng, Robin Garner, David Grove, J. Eliot B. Moss, Sergey I. Salishev
Demystifying magic: high-level low-level programming. VEE (2009)
Jungwoo Ha, Matthew Arnold, Stephen M. Blackburn, Kathryn S. McKinley
A concurrent dynamic analysis framework for multicore hardware. OOPSLA (2009)
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
Wake up and smell the coffee: evaluation methodology for the 21st century. Commun. ACM 51 (8) (2008)
Richard E. Jones, Stephen M. Blackburn
International symposium of memory management (ISMM 2008). ACM SIGPLAN Notices 43 (8) (2008)
Stephen M. Blackburn, Kathryn S. McKinley
Immix: a mark-region garbage collector with space efficiency, fast collection, and mutator performance. PLDI (2008)
Robin Garner, Stephen M. Blackburn, Daniel Frampton
Effective prefetch for mark-sweep garbage collection. ISMM (2007)
Stephen M. Blackburn, Matthew Hertz, Kathryn S. McKinley, J. Eliot B. Moss, Ting Yang
Profile-based pretenuring. ACM Trans. Program. Lang. Syst. 29 (1) (2007)
Xianglong Huang, Stephen M. Blackburn, David Grove, Kathryn S. McKinley
Fast and efficient partial code reordering: taking advantage of dynamic recompilatior. ISMM (2006)
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
The DaCapo benchmarks: java benchmarking development and analysis. OOPSLA (2006)
Matthew Hertz, Stephen M. Blackburn, J. Eliot B. Moss, Kathryn S. McKinley, Darko Stefanovic
Generating object lifetime traces with Merlin. ACM Trans. Program. Lang. Syst. 28 (3) (2006)
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
The Jikes Research Virtual Machine project: Building an open-source research community. IBM Syst. J. 44 (2) (2005)
Harel Paz, Erez Petrank, Stephen M. Blackburn
Age-Oriented Concurrent Garbage Collection. CC (2005)
Maria Jump, Stephen M. Blackburn, Kathryn S. McKinley
Dynamic object sampling for pretenuring. ISMM (2004)
Stephen M. Blackburn, Perry Cheng, Kathryn S. McKinley
Oil and Water? High Performance Garbage Collection in Java with MMTk. ICSE (2004)
Stephen M. Blackburn, Antony L. Hosking
Barriers: friend or foe? ISMM (2004)
Xianglong Huang, Stephen M. Blackburn, Kathryn S. McKinley, J. Eliot B. Moss, Zhenlin Wang, Perry Cheng
The garbage collection advantage: improving program locality. OOPSLA (2004)
Stephen M. Blackburn, Perry Cheng, Kathryn S. McKinley
Myths and realities: the performance impact of garbage collection. SIGMETRICS (2004)
Stephen M. Blackburn, J. Eliot B. Moss, Richard L. Hudson, Ronald Morrison, David S. Munro, John N. Zigman
Starting with Termination: A Methodology for Building Distributed Garbage Collection Algorithms. ACSC (2001)
Stephen M. Blackburn, John Cavazos, Sharad Singhai, Asjad M. Khan, Kathryn S. McKinley, J. Eliot B. Moss, Sara Smolensky
Profile-driven pretenuring for Java (poster session). OOPSLA Addendum (2000)
Stephen M. Blackburn, Robin B. Stanton, Stephan J. G. Scheuerl
Recovery and Page Coherency for a Scalable Multicomputer Object Store. HICSS (1) (1997)
Stephen M. Blackburn
Extraction of Color Region Boundaries. MVA (1992)