Julian Seward
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 Google-O'Reilly Open Source Award for his work on Valgrind.
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| Known for | bzip2, valgrind |
Contributions
- bzip2 (1996), a data compressor
- cacheprof (1999), 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
gollark: Exciting!
gollark: In Rust, this would be a series of incomprehensible type errors occupying several screens.
gollark: This is mostly just because of NIm's very immature libraries.
gollark: Weird.
gollark: I don't mean I found that and ignored it, I mean I never noticed such a thing occurring.
References
- "Julian Seward". UK Companies House.
- 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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