What's New?

• 2026-04-20: I've started as a Vulnerability Researcher with Interrupt Labs.
• 2025-02-09: I'm on the Program Committee for MPLR'26.
• 2025-12-12: I'm on the Program Committee for MoreVMs'26.
• 2025-09-14: New blog post Profiling your JIT with Linux Perf.
• 2025-04-28: I'm on the Program Committee for ICOOOLPS'25.
• 2025-04-15: I'm on the Program Committee for VMIL'25.
• 2025-04-15: New blog post Generating X86_64 code for LLVM's fcmp instruction.
• 2023-11-16: New blog post: Migrating from Bors-NG to Github Merge Queues.
• 2023-10-24: New blog post: Building LLVM faster with ccache and distcc.
• 2023-06-21: I'm on the Program Committee for VMIL'23.
• 2023-03-01: I'm now a Research Fellow at King's College London.
• 2022-02-21: I'm on the ISMM'22 Program Committee.
• 2022-01-06: Phased out use of GnuPG. Moved to age.
• 2021-11-08: Our team is hiring a Research Associate/Assistant.
• 2021-10-14: New blog post: Preventing an optimising compiler from removing or reordering your code.

Selected Publications

More publications over at the Publications page.

Academic Service

• Program Committee: International Conference on Managed Programming Languages & Runtimes (MPLR) in 2026.
• Program Committee: MoreVMs in 2026.
• Program Committee: Implementation, Compilation, Optimization of Object-Oriented Languages, Programs and Systems (ICOOOLPS) in 2025.
• Program Committee: Workshop on Virtual Machines and Language Implementations (VMIL) in 2025.
• Program Committee: Workshop on Virtual Machines and Language Implementations (VMIL) in 2023.
• Program Committee: International Symposium on Memory Management in 2022.
• Reviewer: PeerJ Computer Science in 2020.
• Reviewer: Journal of Object Technology (JOT) in 2020.
• Program Committee: International Conference on Managed Programming Languages & Runtimes (MPLR) in 2019.
• Program Committee: Implementation, Compilation, Optimization of Object-Oriented Languages, Programs and Systems (ICOOOLPS) in 2019.
• Program Committee: The International Conference on the Art, Science, and Engineering of Programming (Programming) in 2019.
• Program Committee: Interconnecting Code Workshop (ICW) in 2019.
• Publicity Chair: European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming (ECOOP) in 2019.
• Organising Committee: Workshop on Modern Language Runtimes, Ecosystems, and VMs (MoreVMs) in 2019.
• Reviewer: Science of Computer Programming (SoCP) journal in 2018.
• Artefact Evaluation Committee: Object-Oriented Programming, Systems, Languages and Applications (OOPSLA) in 2018.
• Organising Committee: Workshop on Modern Language Runtimes, Ecosystems, and VMs (MoreVMs) in 2018.
• Reviewer: Computer Languages, Systems and Structures journal in 2017.
• Program Committee: Implementation, Compilation, Optimization of Object-Oriented Languages, Programs and Systems (ICOOOLPS) in 2017.
• Program Committee: Implementation, Compilation, Optimization of Object-Oriented Languages, Programs and Systems (ICOOOLPS) in 2016.
• Reviewer: Journal of Object Technology (JOT) in 2016.
• Publicity Chair: Dynamic Languages Symposium (DLS) in 2014.
• Program Committee: Workshop on Dynamic Languages and Applications (Dyla) in 2014.

Identity

• edd (at) theunixzoo dot co dot uk
• vext01 (at) gmail dot com
• edd (at) openbsd dot org
• edward.barrett (at) kcl dot ac dot uk
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