Jean-loup Gailly
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Jean-loup Gailly is 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 over zlib in collaboration with Mark Adler. He prefers to write his hyphenated first name with only the J but not the l (ell) capitalized.[1][2]
He wrote a chapter on fractal image compression for Mark Nelson's The Data Compression Book.
From 1990 to 1995, 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.
References[edit]
- ^ Gailly, Jean-loup. "Jean-loup's home page".
- ^ Gailly, Jean-loup. "Jean-loup Gailly's resume".
External links[edit]
- Jean-loup's home page
- Jean-loup Gailly on gzip, Go and Mandrake, an interview on Slashdot
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