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How much diverged is this code from WebKit? 20 years ago Blink didn't even exist, right?
by machello13 6y ago
How much diverged is this code from WebKit? 20 years ago Blink didn't even exist, right?
- londons_explore 6y agoMost of it. The main changes from WebKit to blink are a different approach to memory allocation (oilpan) and object lifetimes to help security. Most of the main files still say Copyright 1999 **@kde.org showing the origin of the original codebase that hasn't changed much to today. It's now so huge and complex that a major redesign/rewrite is pretty much out of the question. It's still mostly single threaded and all the main objects aren't thread safe. JavaScript shares that thread too. Parts of the rendering are multiththreaded and async, but that's it.