Re:A new approach to text rendering
by mianos on Friday June 23, 2017 @12:42AM
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Game engines are pretty much completely sitting on complex tree structures. Way more than the DOM. The main reason the DOM all looks so tricky is it is a hack on a hack on a hack. A lot of game engines have been rewritten from scratch many times over.
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Re:A new approach to text rendering
by Manishearth on Friday June 23, 2017 @02:07AM
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Yes, trees are involved in games too, but not at the level I'm talking about.
You don't have analogues for tree-structure-based "selectors" and anything more than straightforward property inheritance (e.g. inheritance of transformations in a skeleton) in game engines. CSS is much more complex in this aspect.
The DOM having lots of legacy issues is not the reason styling is slow.
CSS is designed for a lot of flexibility and can't be precompiled, which is why it is slow to style.