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

Source/core/rendering/svg/RenderSVGText.cpp

 /*
  * Copyright (C) 2006 Apple Computer, Inc.
  * Copyright (C) 2006 Alexander Kellett <lypanov@kde.org>
  * Copyright (C) 2006 Oliver Hunt <ojh16@student.canterbury.ac.nz>
  * Copyright (C) 2007 Nikolas Zimmermann <zimmermann@kde.org>
  * Copyright (C) 2008 Rob Buis <buis@kde.org>
  * Copyright (C) 2009 Dirk Schulze <krit@webkit.org>
  * Copyright (C) Research In Motion Limited 2010-2012. All rights reserved.
  * Copyright (C) 2012 Google Inc.
  *
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     }
 
     checkLayoutAttributesConsistency(this, m_layoutAttributes);
 
     // Reduced version of RenderBlock::layoutBlock(), which only takes care of SVG text.
     // All if branches that could cause early exit in RenderBlocks layoutBlock() method are turned into assertions.
     ASSERT(!isInline());
     ASSERT(!simplifiedLayout());
     ASSERT(!scrollsOverflow());
     ASSERT(!hasControlClip());
-    ASSERT(!hasColumns());
     ASSERT(!positionedObjects());
     ASSERT(!m_overflow);
     ASSERT(!isAnonymousBlock());
 
     if (!firstChild())
         setChildrenInline(true);
 
     // FIXME: We need to find a way to only layout the child boxes, if needed.
     FloatRect oldBoundaries = objectBoundingBox();
     ASSERT(childrenInline());
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     return 0;
 }
 
 // Fix for <rdar://problem/8048875>. We should not render :first-letter CSS Style
 // in a SVG text element context.
 void RenderSVGText::updateFirstLetter()
 {
 }
 
 }