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The code has been available in their public SVN repository for quite some time:

http://src.chromium.org/viewvc/chrome/trunk/src/courgette/

BTW, I've read about 40% of the Chrome code and I have to say it is the single best open-source project I've come to study so far. Incredibly clean code, really shows how much code reviews done properly can benefit project in the long run.

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Well, the "cleanliness" is probably because it hasn't been open-source for too long - most of the original work was done by a dedicated team of software engineers most likely operating under fairly strict code guidelines.

As someone who works on a project with a team of dedicated engineers under fairly strict code guidelines including code reviews, I can tell you from experience none of these factors have to do with "code cleanliness" (as ours is not, at least in my opinion).

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