Julian Seward
Compiler writer and Free Software contributor
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Born 2000 · age 26United Kingdom
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Updated 2026-06-18
Julian Seward is a British compiler writer and Free Software contributor who lives in Stuttgart. 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 O'Reilly Open Source Award for his work on Valgrind. As of 2009, Seward worked at Mozilla.
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- Сюард, ДжулианLow confidencewikipedia · ru.wikipedia.org
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