> There's no doubt that Apple has effectively managed the project and transformed it into a capable post-PC era rendering engine, but it is clear that if Google can eliminate 4.5 million lines of code from the project, then there's a lot of dead wood in there<p>That’s not really dead wood but merely wood unusable to Google, i.e. the threaded rendering engine WebKit2, which Google doesn’t want to use.<p>Certainly it is perfectly fine for Google to prefer having their own codebase, but claiming that WebKit carries 4.5M unused SLOC around is a little strange[0].<p>[0] Though I am sure that there <i>are</i> N unused SLOC in any project with M SLOC for some N≤M.