Tuesday August 23, 2005
Tuesday August 23, 2005
Who is this FatCatAir anyway?
My name is Steve Goldman. I'm a Sr. Staff Engineer here at Sun
Microsytems. I work on the Hotspot Java Virtual Machine (tm). I
currently work in the JIT compiler group. Previously I worked in
the VM runtime group. I've been working on the VM for something over
six years. I came to Sun as part of the acquisition of the storage
products component of Encore Computer.
I worked for Encore from nearly the beginning in 1984 until the Sun
acquistion in November of 1997. At Encore I worked in the compiler
group that produced the C/C++/Fortran/Pascal compilers that Encore
sold. I have a long time experience with compilers dating back to the
first compiler I wrote as part of an NSF grant while I was an EE
undergraduate at Carnegie Mellon in
1973. At Encore, circa 1987, I designed the parallelizing loop
optimizer for the Fortran and C compilers. I've worked on compilers,
operating systems and device drivers for almost my entire career.
The FatCatAir psuedonym is derived from a party my wife and I threw in 2001. I live on a private airstrip in Pittsboro NC.
When I built my hangar we had a party to celebrate its opening. My wife
and I have been having big yearly theme parties for 20 years or so. For
the hangar warming party the theme was airline flying and airports. The
party invitations were all individualized airline tickets (remember
those?) from our airline "FatCat Air" { motto "Better Late than Never".
Our promise "If we don't get you there alive, your money cheerfully
refunded. } . Everyone was to dress appropriately to destination
on their invitation. Since then FatCatAir has taken on a life of its
own.
Aug 23 2005, 01:30:26 AM EDT
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