On Fri, Nov 2, 2012 at 12:06 AM, Bill Hart <goodwillh...@googlemail.com> wrote: > Dear all, > > I am sorry to report that Jason Moxham, long time contributor and for > some years, maintainer of MPIR, has passed away. I just received this > sad news from his family. > > Jason was an extremely talented assembly language developer and C > programmer who contributed an enormous amount of code and time to the > MPIR project (used by Flint and Sage). He was certainly the most > talented assembly language coder I have ever encountered, and possibly > one of the best in the world. He was especially well-known for writing > an assembly super-optimiser with which he found optimal assembly > sequences for many MPIR functions on a range of processors. > > Jason also put an enormous amount of effort into the MPIR build > system, simplifying it substantially. And he made numerous other > contributions to the project. > > Jason was a core MPIR developer from 2009-2012, however, some of his > code was written and accumulated for years before that. > > A recent project of Jason's was The Code Cavern > (http://thecodecavern.co.uk/) a repository of optimised assembly > sequences. > > A few years ago, Jason also worked on a Windows port of Pari/GP, > funded by a small grant from the cryptography group at Microsoft > Research. > > Jason had a difficult few years, but he put his heart and soul into > MPIR whenever he was able. He will be missed greatly. > > His funeral is in a couple of weeks time. > > We extend our deepest condolences to his family. > > Bill Hart.
Terrible news. Though I didn't know Jason personally, I greatly appreciated the work he did on MPIR. His presence (and awesome assembly skills) will be missed. Fredrik -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "mpir-devel" group. To post to this group, send email to mpir-devel@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to mpir-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/mpir-devel?hl=en.
