Julian Seward

Julian Seward is a compiler writer and Free Software contributor who lives in Cambridge, UK. He is commonly known for creating the bzip2 compression tool, as well as the valgrind memory debugging toolset funded in 2000. In 2006 won a second Google-O'Reilly Open Source Award for his work on Valgrind.

Contributions

• bzip2 - data compressor
• cacheprof - a tool for locating the sources of D-cache misses
• GHC - The Glasgow Haskell Compiler
• valgrind - a memory debugger

Awards

• [July 2006] Julian Seward won a Google-O'Reilly Open Source Award for "Best Toolmaker" for his work on Valgrind

External links

• Interview with Valgrind Author Julian Seward on dot.kde.org

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