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Ultimately, most good ideas were first implemented by Fabrice Bellard.
by twbarr 3y ago
Ultimately, most good ideas were first implemented by Fabrice Bellard.
- KRAKRISMOTT 3y agoCopy and patch goes all the way back to Grace Hopper's original compiler implementation
- lifthrasiir 3y agoThey were called "template-based" JIT and copy-and-patch approach is not new in this regard. The novel idea of copy-and-patch JIT was an automatic code generation via relocatable objects. (By the way, QEMU is indeed cited as an inspiration for copy-and-patch JIT.)
- darknavi 3y agoI am happy to see him working on QuickJS in the last month or so. It could really use some ES2023 love!
- fuzztester 3y agoHeard of him; he's done a lot of stuff. So is he the Bourbaki of software? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolas_Bourbaki https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolas_Bourbaki
- vanderZwan 3y agoWhile I'm sure some people theorize that Fabrice Bellard is actually a pseudonym of a collective of 10x programmers, he is as far as I know just one person.
- fuzztester 3y agoHe he, I forgot to add a wink at the end of my question above.