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Re:Gold: Google Releases New and Improved GCC Linker by pibefision on Friday April 04, 2008 @03:17PM (#155142)
how they monetize this? it ads adsense for every new executable? :)
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Re:Gold: Google Releases New and Improved GCC Linker by wmf on Friday April 04, 2008 @03:42PM (#155168)
Some intern probably wrote a MapReduce job which discovered that Google engineers collectively spend thousands of hours per year linking, so writing a new linker can be justified as a cost savings. :-)

OTOH, http://xkcd.com/303/

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