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Re:A closer look at the performance of Google Chrome by timv on Monday February 25, 2013 @06:37PM (#5282671)
The article's claim is that the inheritance model in WebKit is too complex for the compiler to be able to inline it.

the extensive use of dynamic class inheritance prevents the compiler from efficiently inlining short functions as necessary

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