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"I think it's premature to start making a roadmap that makes Servo a competitive product in N years; apart from anything else, such a roadmap is going to be pur
by paulirish 14y ago
"I think it's premature to start making a roadmap that makes Servo a competitive product in N years; apart from anything else, such a roadmap is going to be pure fantasy" -- also from that post, from just 6 weeks ago. Curious.
That said, having an ARM backend to Rust on Android phones means big things for the potential of mobile web performance. I'm hopeful!
- bzbarsky 14y agoA few things: 1) There is no uniform agreement about the state of Servo. Some are more optimistic than others. 2) There is a number of unknown unknowns here; that's what makes it a research project and makes it hard to roadmap. For example doing parallel layout of CSS involving floats is an actual research topic people are currently publishing papers on...
- qznc 14y agoDoes it even make sense to parallelize the layouting? When does it take longer than a few milliseconds? I'd rather see DOM-updating (e.g. via Javascript) in parallel to the rendering. Although, that already leads to problems since rendering changes to DOM as well.