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Urs Hölzle
KindPerson
Born1964
StatusAlive
Fieldprogramming languages
Sourceselflanguage.org ↗

Built Self's adaptive JIT, then Java's HotSpot, then V8 — the same compiler idea speeding three language generations.

Wrote Self's adaptive compiler (the ancestor of JIT techniques every modern VM uses), then V8's optimizing compiler at Google.\n\nGoogle Fellow; the person who made dynamic languages fast twice.

Sources

  1. selflanguage.org/
  2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urs_H%C3%B6lzle