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Servo doesn't really do anything for JavaScript (which is pretty much as fast as it's going to get, thanks to all the hard work of the V8, Spidermonkey, and Squ
by notriddle 10y ago
Servo doesn't really do anything for JavaScript (which is pretty much as fast as it's going to get, thanks to all the hard work of the V8, Spidermonkey, and SquirrelFish teams). But speeding CSS up is kind of the whole point of Servo.
- Klathmon 10y agoAnd not just "CSS" but the whole DOM itself, which is more often than not what most people "perceive" as the slowness with web apps (and the entire reason why virtual-DOMs have caught on)
- tmzt 10y agoOne of the things Servo gives us is the ability to experiment with new models for scripts to interact with a page. Imagine an IPC-based API exposed to WASM for instance. The concurrency story could also expand on the limited capabilities of web workers support for shared memory.