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That sounds interesting. Any links to design documents or something similar?
by tpmx 7y ago
That sounds interesting. Any links to design documents or something similar?
- amaranth 7y agoThe overall name of the project is Quantum but you have to dig in a bit to find out about the specific sub projects and how they work or plan to work. Overview: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Quantum https://wiki.mozilla.org/Quantum CSS: https://hacks.mozilla.org/2017/08/inside-a-super-fast-css-engine-quantum-css-aka-stylo/ https://hacks.mozilla.org/2017/08/inside-a-super-fast-css-en... DOM: https://billmccloskey.wordpress.com/2016/10/27/mozillas-quantum-project/ https://billmccloskey.wordpress.com/2016/10/27/mozillas-quan... Rendering: https://www.masonchang.com/blog/2016/7/18/a-short-walkthrough-of-webrender-2 https://www.masonchang.com/blog/2016/7/18/a-short-walkthroug...
- tpmx 7y agoI'm well aware of this Rust-based research project. (I thought you were talking about something new. Those pages are 3-4 years old, btw.) None of this parallelization has found its way into mainstream Firefox afaik.
- gsnedders 7y agoStylo shipped a long time ago now, in Firefox 57. https://wiki.mozilla.org/Oxidation#Rust_Components https://wiki.mozilla.org/Oxidation#Rust_Components has a list of what Rust has shipped within Firefox, though most of it has been motivated by safety guarantees rather than parallelism.