Tim Chevalier

Compiler hacker, at Igalia since September 2021.

Oakland, CA (USA)

Member of the compilers team at Igalia. Pinball player, hiker, Mountain Goats fan, beginner aerialist, and dad to two cats. I used to program in Haskell and Rust. 🏳️‍⚧️ 🏳️‍🌈

POSTS

Jun 24, 2022

on impostor syndrome

According to Sedgwick, it was just this kind of interchange that fueled her emotional re-education. She came to see that the quickness of her mind was

Jun 23, 2022

we belong

I am about 70% robot and 30% extremely sentimental and emotional person, generally in series rather than in parallel. But last week’s Igalia summit wa

Jan 29, 2022

Records and objects: both the same and different

I wrote in my most recent “daily” post about the choices involved in representing records in MIR and LIR, Warp’s intermediate languages. Since then, m

Jan 28, 2022

JavaScript is a very interesting language

The other day I learned about indexed setters in JavaScript. It hadn’t occurred to me that you can do the following: var z = 5; Object.defineProperty(

Commits

May 25, 2023

[Gecko Dev] Bug 1811057 - Ship Change Array by Copy Feature r=mgaudet,devtools-re…

Mar 30, 2023

[Webkit] [Wasm-GC] Implement `array.new_canon_fixed`

Mar 28, 2023

[Webkit] [Wasm-GC] Avoid stack consistency checking in LLIntGenerator::addStru…

Mar 28, 2023

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Tim Chevalier

Oakland, CA (USA)

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on impostor syndrome

we belong

Records and objects: both the same and different

JavaScript is a very interesting language

Commits

[Gecko Dev] Bug 1811057 - Ship Change Array by Copy Feature r=mgaudet,devtools-re…

[Webkit] [Wasm-GC] Implement `array.new_canon_fixed`

[Webkit] [Wasm-GC] Avoid stack consistency checking in LLIntGenerator::addStru…

[Webkit] [Wasm-GC] Implement `array.new_canon_elem`

Tim Chevalier

Oakland, CA (USA)

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