Whow, another well-known piece of software that was written by Fabrice Bellard. He's also the original author of qemu, tinyemu, tcc, ffmpeg and many more.
One of the most influential programmers of our time, if not the most.
mrkramer 15 hours ago [-]
His track record is exceptional, he must be a Godlike programmer!
theandrewbailey 2 hours ago [-]
The only other person I can think of with a similar rank is John Carmack.
ddalex 2 hours ago [-]
I'm big fan of Monsieur Bellard, not because he made things complicated, but because he made things simple.
I read through the original source of qemu and the tiny C compiler and the simplicity and beauty of the code are outstanding.
userbinator 7 hours ago [-]
Incidentally, PC BIOSes used the LZ* family of compression algorithms too. LZSS (also known as LZ12/4 for its allocation of indicator word bits), LZARI, LZHUF (which lead to the famous LHA/LZH, and then Deflate/Zlib, ZIP, etc.), and LZINT were all commonly encountered. Apparently Phoenix had a patent on it:
https://bellard.org
I read through the original source of qemu and the tiny C compiler and the simplicity and beauty of the code are outstanding.
https://patents.google.com/patent/US5836013A/en (search for LZSS)
Despite the relative obscurity of Okumura's code, it has definitely had a huge impact.