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Anyone know what the status on multi-threading is? It looks like there are two potential solutions to the problem: 1. Servo--http://www.webmonkey.com/2013/04/m

by reedlaw 13y ago

Anyone know what the status on multi-threading is? It looks like there are two potential solutions to the problem: 1. Servo--http://www.webmonkey.com/2013/04/mozillas-servo/ http://www.webmonkey.com/2013/04/mozillas-servo/ 2. or, Electrolysis--http://www.internetnews.com/blog/skerner/mozilla-set-to-revive-electrolysis-for-firefox-process-threading.html http://www.internetnews.com/blog/skerner/mozilla-set-to-revi... Also see https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=392073 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=392073

robin_reala 13y ago
Both are under implementation. Servo is nowhere near ready yet as would be expected for a totally new engine (although it is making progress [1]). Electrolysis is in for Firefox Mobile / Firefox OS and is in progress for desktop[2]. [1] https://twitter.com/metajack/status/364571230331875331 https://twitter.com/metajack/status/364571230331875331 [2] https://wiki.mozilla.org/Electrolysis https://wiki.mozilla.org/Electrolysis
- thousande 13y ago
  Some more screenshots from Servo: http://about-rust.blogspot.de/2013/08/some-pages-in-servo-as-of-2013-08-10.html http://about-rust.blogspot.de/2013/08/some-pages-in-servo-as...
hsivonen 13y ago
On the topic of the HTML parser, you may be interested in https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Gecko/HTML_parser_threading https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Gecko/HTML_...
pcwalton 13y ago
Servo is a research project, not a project to bring multiprocess support to Gecko. (Presumably you mean multiprocess support, not multithreading—Gecko is already highly multithreaded.) In any case, Gecko is multiprocess already, and it's fully deployed on Firefox OS (and, as of recently, sandboxed). Firefox is not multiprocess because (generally) the front end has not yet been ported, and the project to do that is called Electrolysis.
shmerl 13y ago
See https://wiki.mozilla.org/Platform/GFX/OffMainThreadCompositing https://wiki.mozilla.org/Platform/GFX/OffMainThreadCompositi...
- potkor 13y ago
  That's single threaded compositing on its own thread.
  - shmerl 13y ago
    Which is a step in the right direction. After that they can make it multithreaded. Right now it's all too tied together.

by reedlaw 13y ago

robin_reala 13y ago

Both are under implementation. Servo is nowhere near ready yet as would be expected for a totally new engine (although it is making progress [1]). Electrolysis is in for Firefox Mobile / Firefox OS and is in progress for desktop[2]. [1] https://twitter.com/metajack/status/364571230331875331 https://twitter.com/metajack/status/364571230331875331 [2] https://wiki.mozilla.org/Electrolysis https://wiki.mozilla.org/Electrolysis

thousande 13y ago
Some more screenshots from Servo: http://about-rust.blogspot.de/2013/08/some-pages-in-servo-as-of-2013-08-10.html http://about-rust.blogspot.de/2013/08/some-pages-in-servo-as...

hsivonen 13y ago

On the topic of the HTML parser, you may be interested in https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Gecko/HTML_parser_threading https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Gecko/HTML_...

pcwalton 13y ago

Servo is a research project, not a project to bring multiprocess support to Gecko. (Presumably you mean multiprocess support, not multithreading—Gecko is already highly multithreaded.) In any case, Gecko is multiprocess already, and it's fully deployed on Firefox OS (and, as of recently, sandboxed). Firefox is not multiprocess because (generally) the front end has not yet been ported, and the project to do that is called Electrolysis.

shmerl 13y ago

See https://wiki.mozilla.org/Platform/GFX/OffMainThreadCompositing https://wiki.mozilla.org/Platform/GFX/OffMainThreadCompositi...

potkor 13y ago
That's single threaded compositing on its own thread.
- shmerl 13y ago
  Which is a step in the right direction. After that they can make it multithreaded. Right now it's all too tied together.