[dev-servo] Blink's new layout proposal

2016-07-21 Thread Josh Matthews
Just posted on https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/forum/#!topic/blink-dev/EDczWkKR9P0 and probably worth a look! Cheers, Josh ___ dev-servo mailing list dev-servo@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-servo

Re: [dev-servo] Blink's new layout proposal

2016-07-21 Thread Jim Blandy
Probably of interest outside Servo, too? On Thu, Jul 21, 2016 at 5:27 AM, Josh Matthews wrote: > Just posted on > https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/forum/#!topic/blink-dev/EDczWkKR9P0 > and probably worth a look! > > Cheers, > Josh > ___ > dev-s

Re: [dev-servo] Blink's new layout proposal

2016-07-21 Thread Jack Moffitt
It looks like they've refactored how the layout algorithm works, which is pretty interesting. Down in the performance section however, there seems to be a mix of ideas and very few of them involve parallelism. For example, they want to enable speculative layout to precalculate future animation fram

Re: [dev-servo] Blink's new layout proposal

2016-07-21 Thread Robert O'Callahan
It's a little surprising to me that they don't mention incremental relayout at all. Especially because that has significant interactions with their immutability goal, which is the part of their document I'm pretty skeptical about. OTOH their approach to fragmentation sounds like a good direction.