Code Reuse in Google Chrome Browser - good coders code, great reuse

Code Reuse in Google Chrome Browser - good coders code, great reuse

Laurence J. Peter As everyone already knows, Google released a new open-source web browser called Chrome . Having interest in code reuse, I downloaded the source code and examined all the open-source libraries used. Google Chrome browser shows excellent example of code reuse. I found that they use at least 25 different software libraries! Here is the full list of libraries, along with relative paths to source code and short library descriptions. Many of the libraries have been patched by googlers; look for README.google files in each library directory for information about changes. Library /src/v8 Google's open source JavaScript engine. V8 implements ECMAScript as specified in ECMA-262, 3rd edition, and runs on Windows XP and Vista, Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard), and Linux systems that use IA-32 or ARM processors. V8 can run standalone, or can be embedded into any C++ application. /src/testing/gtest Google's framework for writing C++ tests on a variety of platforms (Linux, Mac OS X, Windows,

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