Stephen M. Blackburn

Stephen M. Blackburn publication distribution in Computer Science in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Computer Science in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Stephen M. Blackburn sits on this spectrum.

Stephen M. Blackburn D-index placement in Computer Science in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Computer Science scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Stephen M. Blackburn sits on this spectrum.

Best Publications

• The DaCapo benchmarks: java benchmarking development and analysis

  Stephen M. Blackburn;Robin Garner;Chris Hoffmann;Asjad M. Khang

  1935
  Citations

• The Jikes research virtual machine project: building an open-source research community

  B. Alpern;S. Augart;S. M. Blackburn;M. Butrico

  349
  Citations

• Myths and realities: the performance impact of garbage collection

  Stephen M. Blackburn;Perry Cheng;Kathryn S. McKinley

  322
  Citations

• Oil and water? High performance garbage collection in Java with MMTk

  Stephen M. Blackburn;Perry Cheng;Kathryn S. McKinley

  253
  Citations

• The DaCapo benchmarks

  Unknown

  217
  Citations

• The garbage collection advantage: improving program locality

  Xianglong Huang;Stephen M. Blackburn;Kathryn S. McKinley;J Eliot B. Moss

  203
  Citations

• Immix: a mark-region garbage collector with space efficiency, fast collection, and mutator performance

  Stephen M. Blackburn;Kathryn S. McKinley

  184
  Citations

• Wake up and smell the coffee: evaluation methodology for the 21st century

  Stephen M. Blackburn;Kathryn S. McKinley;Robin Garner;Chris Hoffmann

  145
  Citations

• Ulterior reference counting: fast garbage collection without a long wait

  Stephen M. Blackburn;Kathryn S. McKinley

  133
  Citations

• Beltway: getting around garbage collection gridlock

  Stephen M Blackburn;Richard Jones;Kathryn S. McKinley;J Eliot B Moss

  132
  Citations

• The yin and yang of power and performance for asymmetric hardware and managed software

  Ting Cao;Stephen M Blackburn;Tiejun Gao;Kathryn S McKinley

  132
  Citations

• Pretenuring for Java

  Stephen M. Blackburn;Sharad Singhai;Matthew Hertz;Kathryn S. McKinely

  120
  Citations

• Looking back on the language and hardware revolutions: measured power, performance, and scaling

  Hadi Esmaeilzadeh;Ting Cao;Yang Xi;Stephen M. Blackburn

  109
  Citations

• Barriers: friend or foe?

  Unknown

  109
  Citations

• Error-free garbage collection traces: how to cheat and not get caught

  Matthew Hertz;Stephen M Blackburn;J Eliot B Moss;Kathryn S. McKinley

  89
  Citations

• Why nothing matters: the impact of zeroing

  Xi Yang;Stephen M. Blackburn;Daniel Frampton;Jennifer B. Sartor

  86
  Citations

• Generating object lifetime traces with Merlin

  Matthew Hertz;Stephen M. Blackburn;J. Eliot B. Moss;Kathryn S. McKinley

  78
  Citations

• Demystifying magic: high-level low-level programming

  Daniel Frampton;Stephen M. Blackburn;Perry Cheng;Robin J. Garner

  77
  Citations

• A concurrent dynamic analysis framework for multicore hardware

  Jungwoo Ha;Matthew Arnold;Stephen M. Blackburn;Kathryn S. McKinley

  77
  Citations

• Dynamic object sampling for pretenuring

  Maria Jump;Stephen M. Blackburn;Kathryn S. McKinley

  71
  Citations