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

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Overview

An excerpt from a Bay Area Rust meetup on Servo's WebRender, which renders CSS display lists on the GPU at very high frame rates. It explains the approach and demos rendering at around 500 FPS.

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HN commenters point to it when discussing how WebRender works and as evidence of what GPU-based browser rendering can achieve.

Recommended by 1 HN people across 1 months ยท HN mentions 2017โ€“2017

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Web developmentC, C++, Rust, Go & systems languagesComputer graphics & rendering
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NiLSPACE ยท 2017-04 ยท Recommendation

If you have the time there is a nice talk about WebRender: [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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srcmap ยท 2017-11 ยท Reference

According 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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littlestymaar ยท 2017-09 ยท Reference

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 pipeline[1] based on state of the art rendering tools[2]. This new pipeline should be deployed in firefox in 2018 as a part of the ongoing Quantum project. [1] [LINK] [2] [VIDEO]

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