Chrome 5 vs. Safari 5 Rendering Speeds, Shouldn’t they be the Same?

Apple code sucks. :) I know you're an apple guy but Apple has added a lot of their own code to their browser. So has Google.

the iPhone browser is pretty slow compared to, say, Palm's WebOS webkit for much of the same reason.

Yea, I am an apple guy (I love their stuff), but I am a programmer first. I know apple has added a lot of other stuff in safari, but it is hard to imagine that it is so hooked in that it slows them down that dramatically on a rendering test.

I am also a guy that respects the heck out of what Google has and is doing from a technical perspective. My suspicion is that they have not yet contributed back their latest round of performance enhancements to webkit. This is a real grey area in gpl (when do you have to contribute). Maybe they just are not finished or it is in legal review. I am not suggesting an evil scheme. I am just suggesting that it is odd that there is such a large discrepancy. Fortunately for Google, it gets them time to cement their reputation as the fastest browser.