On: Niklaus Wirth has died

[vidarh]

I've been a massive fan of the PhD dissertation of Wirth's student Michael Franz since I first read it in '94. He's now a professor at UC Irvine, where he supervised Andreas Gal's dissertation work on trace trees (what eventually became TraceMonkey)

[kragen → vidarh]

thank you, i definitely should have mentioned franz's work, even though i didn't know he was gal's advisor

perhaps more significant than tracemonkey was luajit, which achieves much higher performance with the tracing technique