- Xavier Leroy
Xavier Leroy (born
March 15 ,1968 ) is a Frenchcomputer scientist andprogrammer . He is best known for his role as a primary developer of theObjective Caml system. He is senior scientist ("directeur de recherche") at the French government research institutionINRIA .Leroy was admitted to the
École normale supérieure in Paris in1987 , where he studied mathematics and computer science. From1989 to1992 he did hisPhD in computer science under the supervision ofGérard Huet .He is an internationally recognized expert on
functional programming languages and compilers. In recent years, he has taken an interest informal method s, formal proofs and certified compilation.Leroy was also the original author of
LinuxThreads , the most widely-used threading package for Linux versions prior to 2.6. Linux 2.6 introducedNPTL , with much more extensive support from the kernel, to replaceLinuxThreads .External links
* [http://gallium.inria.fr/~xleroy/ Xavier Leroy's home page]
* [http://gallium.inria.fr/~xleroy/cv-eng.html Curriculum vitae]
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