Tag: google

Mondrian Open Sourced

Guido van Rossum, creator of Python and Google employee, has released a version of the internal Google code-checking tool Mondrian via the Python mailing list. The new app is called Code Review and was built with almost all new code on the Django framework. Code Review uses a lot of the same concepts and infrastructure that Mondrian does including Big Table.

so awesome. mondrian makes a huge difference for code reviews.

Ruby App Engine Hacks

at the end, a call for a common runtime:

What amazes me is how close Ruby 1.9 bytecode and Python 2.5 bytecode are. Some things translate almost directly. It is completely obvious that Koichi took his cues from Python. Storing argcount, nlocals, stacksize first. Marshalling bytecodes. Storing classes and methods as nested bytecode fragments. And, really, if that’s true (and I vouch that it is truly, truly true,) then how are Python and Ruby still on separate runtimes?

Google Bookmarking

Like most people I want Google to add a social aspect to “Google Bookmarks”. The crazy part is they already have a disassembled version of a social bookmarks network. The parts are: Bookmarks, Reader, Notebook & Shared Stuff.

Share

Web Pages

Feeds

Tags

Contacts

Bookmark

Profile

Bookmarks

no

no

no

yes

no

yes

no

Reader

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

no

yes

SharedStuff

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

Notebook

yes

yes

yes

yes

no

yes

no

+1 google bookmarks == the suck

Gold Linker

When I switched to using gold as the linker, I was at first a little surprised to find that it actually works at all. This isn’t especially common for a complicated program that’s just been committed to a source tree. Better yet, it’s as fast as Ian claims: my app now links in 2.6 seconds, almost 5.4 times faster than with the old binutils linker!

the new google-developed gcc linker. 5x faster, you are welcome. even those clowns on the thread who can’t get over the fact that it is in C++. when did lwn turn into /.?