On 4/20/14, 2:16 PM, Patrick Walton wrote:
Yes, I think it can. :( But there's an easy workaround: just fall back
to sequential layout for a subtree if the speculation fails. That will
eliminate the "cascading series of speculation failures leading to
exponential blowup" problem and allow paralle
On 4/19/14 11:20 PM, Boris Zbarsky wrote:
On 4/19/14, 2:38 PM, Patrick Walton wrote:
Any thoughts?
I agree that the speculation described will typically succeed.
The only worry I have is that the idea of doing stuff for an element
then redoing it again if we discover it wasn't right sets off
On 4/19/14, 2:38 PM, Patrick Walton wrote:
Any thoughts?
I agree that the speculation described will typically succeed.
The only worry I have is that the idea of doing stuff for an element
then redoing it again if we discover it wasn't right sets off my "can
this lead to O(2^depth) behavior?
Hi everyone,
I had an idea for how to handle block formatting contexts impacted by
floats in a way that doesn't sacrifice parallelism, with some
speculation. I'd like to get feedback on people's intuitions as to (a)
whether this is likely to pay off; (b) whether this works :)
Recall that blo
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