Julian Seward

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Julian Seward is a compiler writer and open source contributor. He is commonly known for creating the bzip2 compression tool, as well as the valgrind memory debugging toolset.

[edit] Contributions

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

[edit] Awards

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

[edit] External links

 This article on a computer specialist of the United Kingdom is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.
Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org../../../j/u/l/Julian_Seward_a0e1.html"