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Christophe de Dinechin is a French computer scientist, with contributions in video games, programming languages and operating systems.

Dinechin contributed to C++, notably a high-performance exception handling implementation^[1] that became a de facto standard in the industry.^[2] de Dinechin was one of the proponents of a portable C++ ABI, initially developed for Itanium, but now widely used across platforms.^[3]

As initial developer of Alpha Waves, a "groundbreaking" Atari ST game (listed in the Guinness World Records as the first 3D platform game^[5]), de Dinechin heavily influenced Frederick Raynal, the main developer of Alone in the Dark.^[6] de Dinechin also wrote a few viral games for HP-48 calculators,^[7][8] and was the first person to take advantage of hardware-scrolling on these machines.^[9]

In the early 2000s, he worked as a software architect for HP-UX,^[10] and was the initial designer of HP's virtualisation platform for Itanium servers, HP Integrity Virtual Machines. He was awarded 10 US patents for this work.^[11]

Since 2022, he also is the initiator and maintainer of DB48X, a new implementation of RPL.^[12][13]

Christophe de Dinechin did the initial port of Emacs to the Aqua user interface.^[14] He wrote a variety of open-source drivers for the HP DE200C Digital Entertainment Center,^[15] turning it from a web-connected CD Player into a true digital video recorder.

Between 2010 and 2017, Christophe de Dinechin was the CEO of Taodyne, a company developing a 3D animation tool, using a derivative of his XL programming language called Tao3D to describe dynamic documents.^[16]

Dinechin has published three books:

• A French science-fiction novel called Informagie^[17]
• A French book about physics called Réunifions la physique^[18]
• A physics book called A theory of incomplete measurements^[19]