Julian Seward is a British

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writer and

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contributor who lives in

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. He is commonly known for creating the bzip2 compression tool in 1996, as well as the

valgrind Valgrind () is a programming tool for memory debugging, memory leak detection, and profiling. Valgrind was originally designed to be a free memory debugging tool for Linux on x86, but has since evolved to become a generic framework for creati ...

memory debugging toolset founded in 2000. In 2006, he won a second

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for his work on Valgrind. Julian currently works at

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Contributions

* bzip2 (1996), a data compressor * cacheprof (1999), a tool for locating the sources of D-cache misses *

Valgrind Valgrind () is a programming tool for memory debugging, memory leak detection, and profiling. Valgrind was originally designed to be a free memory debugging tool for Linux on x86, but has since evolved to become a generic framework for creati ...

, 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

External links

Interview with Valgrind Author Julian Seward on techrepublic.com
January 2004.
Interview with Valgrind Author Julian Seward on kde.org
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