Jean-Loup Gailly
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Jean-Loup Gailly | |
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| Born | 1956 |
| Known for | gzip |
| Website | http://gailly.net/ |
Jean-Loup Gailly (born 1956) is a French computer scientist and an author of gzip. He wrote the compression code of the portable archiver of the Info-ZIP and the tools compatible with the PKZIP archiver for MS-DOS. He worked on zlib in collaboration with Mark Adler.
He wrote a chapter on fractal image compression for Mark Nelson's The Data Compression Book.
From 1981—1989 He worked as a senior developer on Ada compilers for Alsys.
From 1990 to 1995, while working for Chorus Systèmes SA, he designed the real-time executive of the ChorusOS microkernel.
From 1999 to 2001, he was the CTO of Mandrakesoft.
From 2006 to 2014, he worked at Google as a Tech. Lead Manager.
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[edit]- Gailly's home page
- Jean-Loup Gailly on gzip, Go and Mandrake, an interview on Slashdot
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