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Fastest browser engine by far at 500 FPS! Servo Webrender - CSS on the GPU part 1: Rust

Name: Fastest browser engine by far at 500 FPS! Servo Webrender - CSS on the GPU part 1: Rust
Uploaded: 2016-02-23T07:18:00Z
Duration: 15 min
Channel: 𝓖𝓷𝓸𝓶𝓮💫𝓢𝓪𝓷𝓮
Description: An excerpt from a Rust meetup demonstrating how Servo's WebRender uses the GPU to render CSS display lists at high frame rates.

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An excerpt from a Rust meetup demonstrating how Servo's WebRender uses the GPU to render CSS display lists at high frame rates.

Excerpted from air.mozilla.org/bay-area-rust-meetup-february-2016/ Servo can be found at servo-builds.s3.amazonaws.com/index.html and the latest Windows alpha build is at download.servo.org/nightly/windows/servo-latest.msi

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What people say. Recommended for its impressive demonstration of WebRender's high-performance GPU-based CSS rendering pipeline.

NiLSPACEon Hacker News • 9 years agoRecommends

On “Mozilla and Microsoft are rebuilding their browsers’ foundations”

If you have the time there is a nice talk about WebRender: link to this video Here is another great talk: link At ~25:30 he'll also talk a bit about Quantum. In a nutshell WebRender is used to send a web page to the GPU which will paint all divs, borders, shadows, images etc. Currently WebRender is the only component I'm aware of that is inside Firefox Nightly. It's still behind a config though.

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ZenoArrowon Hacker News • 9 years agoMentions

On “Transitioning Firefox's rendering engine from Gecko to Servo”

>"If performance is not competitive" I don't think this will be a problem. One example... link to this video link

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littlestymaaron Hacker News • 9 years agoMentions

On “CSS Triggers”

You should take these advices with a grain of salt because it refers to the legacy rendering pipeline used by current web browers. There is not absolute rule stating that layout and painting must be slow while compositing is not. In fact Mozillians are currently working on a new rendering pipeline1 based on state of the art rendering tools2. This new pipeline should be deployed in firefox in 2018 as a part of the ongoing Quantum project. 1 link 2 link to this video

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yazaddaruvalaon Hacker News • 9 years agoMentions

On “Introduction to WebRender”

I'm sure the future blog posts will have more details, but it has to do with immediate mode vs retained mode APIs. link to this video

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srcmapon Hacker News • 8 years agoMentions

On “Desktop compositing latency is real”

According to this: link to this video Firefox's servo engine can compose CSS elements/Display List together at 500 frames / second. Maybe next version of Windows / Linux desktop should use FF's servo engine?

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