Publications

(to appear) Zhao, Blackburn, McKinley, Cao, Hamouda, Advancing Performance via a Systematic Application of Research and Industrial Best Practice, in OOPSLA ’25, Singapore, October 12-18, 2025.

(to appear) Zhao, Blackburn, McKinley, Work Packets: A New Abstraction for GC Software Engineering, Optimization, and Innovation, in OOPSLA ’25, Singapore, October 12-18, 2025.

Zhao, Blackburn, McKinley, Low-Latency, High-Throughput Garbage Collection, in PLDI ’22, San Diego, CA, USA., June 13-17, 2022.

Zhao, Blackburn, Deconstructing the Garbage-First Collector, in VEE ’20, Lausanne, Switzerland., March 17, 2020.

Zhao, Understanding & Analyzing the Garbage-first Family of Garbage Collectors, Honours thesis, 2018.

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