*** DO NOT LAND *** Measure the size and complexity of the old multicol implementation.

Source/core/dom/Document.cpp

 /*
  * Copyright (C) 1999 Lars Knoll (knoll@kde.org)
  *           (C) 1999 Antti Koivisto (koivisto@kde.org)
  *           (C) 2001 Dirk Mueller (mueller@kde.org)
  *           (C) 2006 Alexey Proskuryakov (ap@webkit.org)
  * Copyright (C) 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2011, 2012 Apple Inc. All rights reserved.
  * Copyright (C) 2008, 2009 Torch Mobile Inc. All rights reserved. (http://www.torchmobile.com/)
  * Copyright (C) 2008, 2009, 2011, 2012 Google Inc. All rights reserved.
  * Copyright (C) 2010 Nokia Corporation and/or its subsidiary(-ies)
  * Copyright (C) Research In Motion Limited 2010-2011. All rights reserved.
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     if (root->childNeedsDistributionRecalc())
         root->recalcDistribution();
 }
 
 void Document::setStyleDependentState(RenderStyle* documentStyle)
 {
     const Pagination& pagination = view()->pagination();
     if (pagination.mode != Pagination::Unpaginated) {
         Pagination::setStylesForPaginationMode(pagination.mode, documentStyle);
         documentStyle->setColumnGap(pagination.gap);
-        if (renderView()->hasColumns())
-            renderView()->updateColumnInfoFromStyle(documentStyle);
     }
 
     FontBuilder fontBuilder;
     fontBuilder.initForStyleResolve(*this, documentStyle, isSVGDocument());
     RefPtr<CSSFontSelector> selector = m_styleEngine->fontSelector();
     fontBuilder.createFontForDocument(selector, documentStyle);
 }
 
 void Document::inheritHtmlAndBodyElementStyles(StyleRecalcChange change)
 {
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     if (!page->focusController().isActive() || !page->focusController().isFocused())
         return false;
     if (Frame* focusedFrame = page->focusController().focusedFrame()) {
         if (focusedFrame->tree().isDescendantOf(frame()))
             return true;
     }
     return false;
 }
 
 } // namespace WebCore