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The Hitchhiker's Guide to ...
Personal blog · astares.blogspot.comprogrammingsystems
The Hitchhiker's Guide to ... is a personal blog at astares.blogspot.com about programming and systems. Since 2008, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times, most often “History of Chrome team: Animorphic Smalltalk engine”. The last post was in 2021, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog for its posts on Smalltalk VM history: its OOVM post and a post on Google Chrome's V8 engine and the Animorphic team. Commenters cite these as sources.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- History of Chrome team: Animorphic Smalltalk engine2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2008-09-03
What Hacker News says?
v8 wasn't developed by a separate company, but Bak did bring at least one of his colleagues along to Google (I'm pretty sure just as new employees to Google). And he had another company that worked on a SmallTalk VM called OOVM, targeted at embedded devices, right before he joined Google: https://astares.blogspot.com/2012/04/inside-oovm.html However it apparently wasn't acquired by Google: http://www.businesswire.co…
Comment linking /2012/04/inside-oovm.html
on “Chris Lattner Joins Google Brain”Submitted History of Chrome team: Animorphic Smalltalk engine as a story · 30 points
HN discussionhttp://astares.blogspot.com/2008/09/google-chrome-javascript... "The most interesting part is a new implementation for the JavaScript Engine called "V8" done by members of the orginal Animorphic team. Animorphic Smalltalk was a Smalltalk system built around the mid-90s as part of a startup that was informally known as Animorphic Systems. In early 1997, Animorphic was acquired by Sun, and much of the underlying VM te…
Comment linking /2008/09/google-chrome-javascript-and-smalltalk.html
on “V8 under the hood”