[dev-servo] Async HTML parsing

2017-03-02 Thread Nikhil Shagrithaya
Hi everyone, I've been contributing to Servo for a few months now (irc: cynicaldevil), and I'm interested in taking up the project for moving parser actions off the main thread as a part of GSoC. I've been reading the relevant details linked from the issue page, and it seems like the first st

Re: [dev-servo] Async HTML parsing

2017-03-02 Thread Boris Zbarsky
On 3/2/17 2:40 PM, Nikhil Shagrithaya wrote: Shouldn't it be possible to extend speculative parsing to continue parsing HTML instead of just fetching other resources? For what it's worth, Gecko does this: speculatively tokenizes off-thread even if the parser is blocked. If a document.write()