Julian Seward is a GHC compiler developer and co-author of free software based in Cambridge , UK. Widely known for creating the bzip2 compression utility, as well as the valgrind toolkit for debugging memory usage, begun in 2000. In 2006, he won the second Google-O'Reilly Open Source Award for his work on Valgrind.
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Julian currently works at the Mozilla Foundation [1] .
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Project Participation
- bzip2 - data compression utility
- cacheprof - a tool for finding the source of D-cache misses
- GHC - The Glasgow Haskell Compiler
- valgrind - memory usage debugger
Rewards
- [July 2006] Julian Seward wins Google-O'Reilly Open Source Award for Best Tool Maker for his work on Valgrind
Notes
- ↑ Rob Saire Blog Archived February 18, 2011.
Links
- Interview with Valgrind creator Julian Seward at techrepublic.com January 2004 .
- Interview with Valgrind creator Julian Seward at kde.org , February 2006 .