Re: [dev-servo] Moz2D/Skia (meeting notes)

2014-11-19 Thread Andreas Gal
We should measure this first before making guesses. On mobile architectures its actually very common to disable the GPU whenever possible to save power. Android supports hardware composition in order to turn off the GPU and ideally even the frame buffer when only simple scenes are displayed. Ev

Re: [dev-servo] Moz2D/Skia (meeting notes)

2014-11-19 Thread Cameron Zwarich
Shouldn’t the focus be on power rather than raw performance? In terms of the work that has to be performed for rendering web pages, GPUs should be more power efficient than CPUs, especially with some of the mobile GPU architectures. There is a question of whether all of the layers of abstractio