Julian Seward

Compiler writer and Free Software contributor

Julian Seward
Known forbzip2, valgrind

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

  1. ^ "Julian Seward". UK Companies House. Archived from the original on 3 April 2017.
  2. ^ Rob Sayre's Blog

External links

  • Interview with Valgrind Author Julian Seward on techrepublic.com, January 2004.
  • Interview with Valgrind Author Julian Seward on kde.org, February 2006.
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