Elixir Cross Referencer: new way to browse kernel sources

Free electrons has released the initialversion of the ElixirCross-Referencer, a Linux source code cross-referencing online tool.Elixir uses a new engine written in Python that replaces LXR, theengine used in free electron's previous online tool. "Another reason that motivated a complete rewrite was that we wanted to provide an up-to-date reference (including the latest revisions) while keeping it immutable, so that external links to the source code wouldn't get broken in the future. As a direct consequence, we would need to index many different revisions for each project, with potentially a lot of redundant information between them. That's when we realized we could leverage the data model of Git to deal with this redundancy in an efficient manner, by indexing Git blobs, which are shared between revisions. In order to make sure queries under this strategy would be fast enough, we wrote a proof-of-concept in Python, and thus Elixir was born."