Microsoft proves the critics right: We’re heading toward a Chrome-only Web

Re:Microsoft proves the critics right: We’re heading toward ... by _bxg1 on Tuesday March 12, 2019 @05:48PM (#19373400)

Ah-hah!

"What if we stopped trying to guess what layers we need? What if we removed this boundary between painting and compositing and just went back to painting every pixel on every frame?

This may sound like a ridiculous idea, but it actually has some precedent. Modern day video games repaint every pixel, and they maintain 60 frames per second more reliably than browsers do. And they do it in an unexpected way… instead of creating these invalidation rectangles and layers to minimize what they need to paint, they just repaint the whole screen.

Wouldn’t rendering a web page like that be way slower?

If we paint on the CPU, it would be. But GPUs are designed to make this work."

https://hacks.mozilla.org/2017/10/the-whole-web-at-maximum-f...

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Re:Microsoft proves the critics right: We’re heading toward ... by Quekid5 on Tuesday March 12, 2019 @07:16PM (#19374065)

Are you being sarcastic? I can't tell.

Any modern CPU and GPU can do a lot of DMA and copying of memory in a very short amount of time, but that doesn't mean it'll be efficient wrt. power... which is what I think you were 'complaining' about?

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Re:Microsoft proves the critics right: We’re heading toward ... by miohtama on Tuesday March 12, 2019 @07:12PM (#19374042)

The GPUs can do it, push 60 page updates per second, but that is very energy inefficient way to do it.

You can feel this by playing any 3D shooter on your laptop and see the battery being sucked empty.

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