Julian Seward Explained
Julian Seward is a British compiler writer and Free Software contributor who lives in Stuttgart.[1] He is commonly known for creating the bzip2 compression tool in 1996, as well as the valgrind memory debugging toolset founded in 2000. In 2006, he won a second O'Reilly Open Source Award for his work on Valgrind. As of 2009, Seward worked at Mozilla.[2]
Contributions
- bzip2 (1996), a data compressor
- cacheprof (1999), a tool for locating the sources of D-cache misses
- 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
References
- Web site: Julian Seward . UK Companies House . https://web.archive.org/web/20170403195745/https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/officers/KHLEOLGytRE9QEyU4k35ocoHlHE/appointments . 3 April 2017 .
- https://web.archive.org/web/20110218032202/http://blog.mozilla.com/rob-sayre/2009/06/01/welcome-to-julian-seward/ Rob Sayre's Blog
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