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. -- 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.
