Julian Seward
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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. In 2006 won a second Google-O'Reilly Open Source Award for his work on Valgrind.
[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