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I'm curious what the 300,000 lines of code removed in Blink were, and the corresponding but smaller removal of code in WebKit.
by tlrobinson 12y ago
I'm curious what the 300,000 lines of code removed in Blink were, and the corresponding but smaller removal of code in WebKit.
- Scorponok 12y agoSome details here: http://techcrunch.com/2013/05/16/google-has-already-removed-8-8m-lines-of-webkit-code-from-blink/ http://techcrunch.com/2013/05/16/google-has-already-removed-... As I understand it, Google and Apple did things like sandboxing in different ways for Chrome and Safari, and so there was a lot of code in both projects that could be ripped out once the alternate way of doing things didn't need to be supported any more.
- paulirish 12y agoFairly sure a good chunk of it was the various WebKit ports: QT, GTK, etc. On the WebKit side they dropped the Chromium port, the V8 binding layer, etc.