On 10/13/13 3:30 PM, Brendan Eich wrote:
Patrick Walton wrote:
Ultimately, as I said before, I think there is no sidestepping the
need for a truly multithreaded browser engine to eliminate jank.
Has this been rejected just for now, in a pragmatic way, or more
decisively (for a longer term), by Blink/chromium people? Appreciate any
links.
https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/forum/#!topic/blink-dev/-TBnz3LJiGY
"From this data, we concluded that we might as well block the main
thread during layout because the main thread is going to synchronously
need access to layout data soon anyway."
No offense to Chrome folks, of course, but I think the methodology was
somewhat suspect: they went to the top X Web sites and, if there was a
search box, entered "cats" into it. This is (a) an event-heavy
sequential bottleneck; (b) not particularly interactive (no scrolling or
anything more interesting than entering text); (c) only looking at
existing content and patterns, not new content that authors could create.
Patrick
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