I agree with your assessment of their website, but the paper itself looks really interesting. The author also mentions a paper that he liked from the same confe

I agree with your assessment of their website, but the paper itself looks really interesting. The author also mentions a paper that he liked from the same conference: "PS: I would also like to mention another deserving paper from PLDI 1998: 'Optimizing direct-threaded code by selective inlining,' by Ian Piumarta and Fabio Riccardi. This paper describes the technology that was later used in QEMU, and it qualifies in my opinion as one of the greatest hacks of all time."