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We certainly considered that path, with both Gecko and WebKit.

In theory, that's possible, but in practice it would likely take just as long, and at the end you would have a rendering engine that was years behind the competition. Not least because intermediate stages wouldn't be upliftable back to the main codebase because partially parallelizing things leaves you with worse performance than either parallelizing nothing or everything, in many cases.




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