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WebKit, I suppose.
by ntp85 6y ago
WebKit, I suppose.
- frabcus 6y agoHow different are Blink and WebKit these days? My impression is they share patches enough, that they can't really be counted as different browser engines. But perhaps that has changed?
- SahAssar 6y agoThey are very different, it's been seven years of heavy development since forking. For comparison that's longer than the time between apple forking kHTML to make webkit and the the first release of chrome.
- wayneftw 6y agoThe passage of time alone does not make changes. The question was: What are the differences?
- freediver 6y agoStart Safari and Chrome on a mac, open several tabs and observe: - Memory usage - Energy usage Then open https://browserbench.org https://browserbench.org and do the benchmarks. Webkit will dominate Blink (and for that matter Gecko) in all categories.
- SahAssar 6y agoThe question was "How different are Blink and WebKit these days?" and "But perhaps that has changed?". My answer was "they are different" and implicitly "yes", partially because of the heavy development work that has been done since the fork seven years ago. If you look at the featuresets and when they introduce features I think it's reasonable to conclude they have diverged enough that they can't just pull patches from each other. Also, there was a webkit mailing thread back when they introduced their cut-down version of service-worker that said that most of the code from blink was basically unusable for them because of the differences.