[twbarr]

Ultimately, most good ideas were first implemented by Fabrice Bellard.

[KRAKRISMOTT]

Copy and patch goes all the way back to Grace Hopper's original compiler implementation

[lifthrasiir]

They 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.)

[fuzztester]

Heard of him; he's done a lot of stuff. So is he the Bourbaki of software?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolas_Bourbaki

[vanderZwan]

While 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]

He he, I forgot to add a wink at the end of my question above.

[darknavi]

I am happy to see him working on QuickJS in the last month or so. It could really use some ES2023 love!