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nl on Dec 2, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: QEMU 1.0 released

Yet another Bellard production (originally, anyway).

Let's list a few things he has done:

- QEMU: code from which has been used in Xen and KVM amongst others (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QEMU#Integration_in_other_virtu...)

- FFMpeg, which almost every free video tool uses in some form

- The fastest known formula for calculating Pi

- The x86 Javascript emulator

That doesn't include things like his self-compiling C compiler which won the International Obfuscated C Code Contest. See http://bellard.org/ for more.

I find him simply inspirational.

Raphael_Amiard on Dec 2, 2011 | [–]

You can include TCC without fear i guess, small and fast C compiler based on the self compiling C compiler you were talking about. http://bellard.org/tcc/

faragon on Dec 2, 2011 | [–]

Fabrice Bellard is an extraordinary human. I know about his work since 1990 when he wrote the LZEXE self-unpacking executable utility for DOS.

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