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JSbeeb and Compiler Explorer at ROUGOL, Monday 16th March 2026

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The next meeting of the RISC OS User Group Of London will be:

    JSbeeb and Compiler Explorer
      Presented by Matt Godbolt

    Monday 16th March 2026, 7:45pm

    The Duke of Sussex
    (upstairs in the *Chichester Room* from 6.30pm)
    23 Baylis Road, London, SE1 7AY
    https://rougol.jellybaby.net/venue.html

    Also online via Zoom, meeting open from 7.30pm

    https://rougol.jellybaby.net/meetings/


Matt Godbolt has a computing story that will be familiar, starting 
programming on a Spectrum before upgrading to a BBC Master and then an 
Archimedes, finally moving on to PCs. Having written for Acorn User and 
produced Beeb games as a teenager, he then wrote RISC OS software such as 
IRClient and FinalLook while at university, before going on to work for 
Argonaut Games, Google, and many more.

These days Matt is known in the retro computing world for producing 
JSbeeb, the BBC Micro emulator in Javascript which powers the Complete BBC 
Micro Games Archive, enabling every Beeb game to be played live in you 
browser. (He has also done a Spectrum emulator, but we don't talk about 
that!)

Outside of retro circles, Matt's major public project is the Compiler 
Explorer website, which enables the live analysis of the output of many 
different compilers to see how they optimise code.

Matt is visiting London from his home in Chicago and will be joining us in 
the pub to talk about some/all/none of this and more! Come along to chat 
to him and maybe buy him a thank you drink :-)

Note we are in the larger Chichester Room this month.


Future meetings
===============

Mon 20th April - Desktop Themes with Paolo Zaino and Martin Eastwood

As desktop theming has been topical recently, Paolo will be talking about 
how it works and his theme application, and Martin will talk about the 
creation of his Frosted theme.

Mon 18th May - ARX and the Acorn Palo Alto Research Centre, Jim Mitchell

Jim Mitchell will be Zooming in from his home in California. Jim managed 
the ARM development team and was head of the Acorn Research Centre in Palo 
Alto, where the original planned (but failed) Archimedes operating system 
ARX was being developed. Very little has ever been heard about what 
happened there, so this is a unique chance to find out all about it.

Before that he worked for 12 years at the legendary Xerox PARC where 
ethernet, laser printers, postscript, file sharing, and the WIMP concept 
were first developed. Later he worked for Sun and was responsible for the 
development of Java.

He's a computing giant and we are very excited to have him joining us :-)

  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_G._Mitchell


Directions to the venue by car (there is parking directly outside the pub
on Coral Street) and public transport (recommended!) are on the website:

    https://rougol.jellybaby.net/venue.html

Or contact us to receive the Zoom link to the meeting:

    https://rougol.jellybaby.net/contacts/

If you have attended any previous meeting, it's the same link this month.

If you need any further information, please contact us as below.

RISC OS User Group Of London     rougol2026@helpful-demon.co.uk
https://rougol.jellybaby.net/    @rougol.bsky.social   07970 211 629


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