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Name
  
Julian Seward

Role
  
IT/Software Developer

Known for
  
bzip2, Valgrind


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A dozen years of Memcheck Looking backwards and looking forwards


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

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Julian currently works at Mozilla.

Contributions

  • bzip2, a data compressor
  • cacheprof, a tool for locating the sources of D-cache misses
  • Glasgow Haskell Compiler (GHC)
  • 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

    Julian Seward Wikipedia
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