Off-Main-Thread painting

Re:Off-Main-Thread painting by speps on Wednesday December 06, 2017 @04:43AM (#15859820)

Bit sarcastic but did web browsers developers just discover how it's been done in real-time graphics applications (eg. games) for decades...?

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Re:Off-Main-Thread painting by nachtigall on Wednesday December 06, 2017 @05:53AM (#15860131)

Yes :) all current browser engines have their roots in the Nineties (webkit is also based on KHTML). This is what WebRender (part of Servo) to be added to Firefox Quantum / Gecko will change.

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Re:Off-Main-Thread painting by ty___ler on Wednesday December 06, 2017 @05:09AM (#15859929)

I remember hearing that Firefox’s recent engineering work is actually directly based off game development.

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