I can't recall the last paper that I had to fluff up to fill all 10 or 12 pages; nor do I remember any colleagues doing anything like that. In truth, every pape

I can't recall the last paper that I had to fluff up to fill all 10 or 12 pages; nor do I remember any colleagues doing anything like that. In truth, every paper halves in size between the first good draft and the submission. Writing a good paper can take a month, and involve writing dozens of drafts (I wrote a post about this at https://pavpanchekha.com/blog/paper-section-stats.html https://pavpanchekha.com/blog/paper-section-stats.html). Now, you might say that the paper should contain less content. But what do you want to chuck? The technical sections are the whole point of the paper, and they're already squeezed to fit. Evaluation? But that only hurts the causes in this article. And the introduction, background, overview, and related work sections are frequently described by non-specialists as the most useful parts of a paper. Here's a paper I'm very proud of: http://herbie.uwplse.org/pldi15.html http://herbie.uwplse.org/pldi15.html What should I have cut?