But what we *can* do is have communications with the WebRender devs to see that our approaches (which have been mostly vetted by graphics and layout people already) will continue to perform well (and possibly better) in WebRender.
On Tue, Apr 18, 2017 at 1:53 PM, Justin Dolske <dol...@mozilla.com> wrote: > > > On Tue, Apr 18, 2017 at 1:19 AM, Jack Moffitt <j...@metajack.im> wrote: > >> > Another really nice effort that is starting to unfold and I'm super >> excited >> > about is the new Photon performance project >> > <https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1348289>, which is a >> focused >> > effort on the front-end performance. This includes everything from >> > engineering the new UI with things like animations running on the >> > compositor in mind from the get-go, being laser focused on guaranteeing >> > good performance on key UI interactions such as tab opening and closing, >> > and lots of focused measurements and fixes to the browser front-end. >> >> I think the order of operations here is unfortunate. What we'd prefer >> is that WebRender land first, and then Photon be designed around what >> is possible in the GPU-backed world. > > > That's a complete non-starter. Photon work is already underway, and > there's a _ton_ of work to do for the 57 release. > > Blocking Photon on another major project landing first would mean > canceling Photon for 57. > > Justin > > _______________________________________________ > firefox-dev mailing list > firefox-...@mozilla.org > https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/firefox-dev > > _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
