Kritter (Chris Purcell, England)

I’m doing a CompSci PhD at Cambridge Uni (England). I have two publications now - sweet! See http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1011767.1011829 and http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/TechReports/UCAM-CL-TR-639.html

Some things I have been responsible for: *FoundationCollectionsPalette, DesignMatrix, KTLLMutableArray, DesignCollection

• Code changes to this site’s engine to make it do its job better - page history and topics are my legacy.
• Garnering a reputation for being unwholesomely interested in atomic operations. [not unwholesomely interested in so much as unwholesomely good at, I think] Stuff like ProducersAndConsumerModel may have caused that.

Current obsessions:

• Low-level design of lock-free concurrent data structures, whence the SynchronizationPoints, DeadLock and LiveLock pages. I may well add more such to this site; I know of one frequent user of this site who would approve, and suspect others may exist. (Do contact me if so.)
• Language design.
• Wiki engine design ( see http://www.usemod.com/cgi-bin/mb.pl?PeriPeri ).

My main homepage is on MeatBall: http://www.usemod.com/cgi-bin/mb.pl?ChrisPurcell

Miniblog

9 Feb 2007: Viva on Tuesday!

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The way [we] perceive beauty is intimately related to our ability to process and understand complexity. A language that makes it hard to write elegant code makes it hard to write good code. – Eric S. Raymond

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Old conversations —-

“Drink to me the parting glass…” – RobRix

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Thanks a lot for FoundationCollectionsAndInterfaceBuilder! Don’t take the moron deleting your page as an indication of the general response to your nice classes! – DavidRemahl

RobRix raises his glass in agreement.

Thanks, guys. – KritTer

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That seems the appropriate place to add this: thanks very much, KritTer, for the very nice fix for the MultipleEditSyndrome. Yeah!!!

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Unusual links —-

• http://www-3.ibm.com/chips/techlib/techlib.nsf/techdocs/852569B20050FF778525699600682CC7 - Everything you ever wanted to know about PowerPC RISC instructions but were justifiably too intimidated to ask
• http://www-3.ibm.com/chips/techlib/techlib.nsf/techdocs/852569B20050FF7785256996007558C6 - PowerPC - for compiler writers!

Please don’t add to this list. It’s mine. :P