Gold: Google Releases New and Improved GCC Linker

Re:Gold: Google Releases New and Improved GCC Linker by henning on Friday April 04, 2008 @03:16PM (#155139)

I'm just waiting for Google to start making their own motherboards, chipsets, and CPU architectures. That seems to be the logical conclusion of their tendency to respond to the uniquely demanding requirements of their mission by creating new, improved infrastructure.

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Re:Gold: Google Releases New and Improved GCC Linker by tb on Friday April 04, 2008 @08:20PM (#155373)

Nope, far from it, they're using the most commodity hardware infrastructure they can find. Their whole system is built around cheap, widely-available hardware. Even with the volumes they are using, they would not get production high enough to compete with the commodity PC market on price.

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Re:Gold: Google Releases New and Improved GCC Linker by tfinniga on Friday April 04, 2008 @11:56PM (#155494)

They are trying to get more efficient power supplies.. http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/09/26/2039213

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Re:Gold: Google Releases New and Improved GCC Linker by henning on Friday April 04, 2008 @08:58PM (#155398)

I guess it wasn't obvious that I wasn't really seriously waiting for Google to start slinging wafers.

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