Mozilla Webrender: rendering any webpage at several hundred FPS

Re:Mozilla Webrender: rendering any webpage at several hundr... by Touche on Thursday February 25, 2016 @02:39PM (#11177158)

I tried using Servo with browser.html and found it to be unusably slow, is this browser.html's fault or Servo's? I'm thinking it is Servo, it's too slow to just be slow javascript, it feels like my GPU isn't being used. On a Macbook

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Re:Mozilla Webrender: rendering any webpage at several hundr... by zokier on Thursday February 25, 2016 @02:54PM (#11177289)

Did you use release or debug build? The perf difference in Rust between those is quite staggering

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Re:Mozilla Webrender: rendering any webpage at several hundr... by Touche on Thursday February 25, 2016 @04:09PM (#11177809)

release

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Re:Mozilla Webrender: rendering any webpage at several hundr... by pcwalton on Thursday February 25, 2016 @04:22PM (#11177898)

Please file a bug with your system specs and specifically what you were trying then. We'll try to get it triaged ASAP.

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Re:Mozilla Webrender: rendering any webpage at several hundr... by zbraniecki on Thursday February 25, 2016 @08:15PM (#11179219)

aand link it here. I tried to build browser.html+servo today on my macos and the browser.html UI feels terribly slow (while servo launched on its own feels fast).

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Re:Mozilla Webrender: rendering any webpage at several hundr... by Touche on Friday February 26, 2016 @09:14AM (#11181419)

https://github.com/servo/servo/issues/9758

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Re:Mozilla Webrender: rendering any webpage at several hundr... by pcwalton on Friday February 26, 2016 @12:46PM (#11182757)

Thanks for the report! Landing a fix for the issue (-b/glutin) right now—I had it queued but never actually got around to landing it.

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Re:Mozilla Webrender: rendering any webpage at several hundr... by Touche on Friday February 26, 2016 @02:26PM (#11183464)

Thanks, where can I run benchmarks (either the ones in your video or others) so I can compare it against Firefox? It still doesn't "feel" as smooth as Firefox, but then again that could be unrelated to WebRender.

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Re:Mozilla Webrender: rendering any webpage at several hundr... by pcwalton on Friday February 26, 2016 @02:37PM (#11183556)

I think it's not really ready for informal benchmarks like that. There are lots of random issues. Feel free to try various pages and file bugs, though.

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Re:Mozilla Webrender: rendering any webpage at several hundr... by pcwalton on Thursday February 25, 2016 @02:43PM (#11177191)

Don't forget to use the -w switch to enable WebRender.

If that doesn't help, please file a bug. Getting to optimum performance with diverse hardware configurations is a slog, unfortunately, and any and all performance/hardware data is a great help :)

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Re:Mozilla Webrender: rendering any webpage at several hundr... by Touche on Thursday February 25, 2016 @02:49PM (#11177245)

I'm using `gulp servo` which appears to use that switch: https://github.com/browserhtml/browserhtml/blob/master/gulpf... . Used the binary in the target/release folder... not sure what I could have done wrong.

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