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Re:Haiku R1/beta2 has been released by exikyut on Thursday June 11, 2020 @06:06AM (#23487097)
> OpenBSD, which uses X11 that Chromium already has a native backend for, has thousands of lines of patches they have to maintain (and spend hours and hours rebasing every upgrade).

Wow, you're not kidding. https://github.com/openbsd/ports/tree/master/www/chromium/pa... is positively scary.

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Re:Haiku R1/beta2 has been released by wadera on Thursday June 11, 2020 @01:13PM (#23490979)
Please have a closer look at those patches. 98% of it is constituted of C preprocessor ifdefs. This means that most of them just enable the same features as Linux alongside other operating systems. Most of it is purely code configuration. Haiku instead reimplement many parts of WebKit, instead of relying on mature code. This is the reason why the WebKit performance on Haiku is so poor.
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Re:Haiku R1/beta2 has been released by waddlesplash on Thursday June 11, 2020 @02:51PM (#23492103)
You do realize that WebKit has no native graphics API, right? It uses Cairo under GTK, CoreGraphics under macOS, etc. etc. So we created a Be API implementation, and yes, it needs more optimization. But you are acting like we are reinventing the wheel here or something...
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Re:Haiku R1/beta2 has been released by wadera on Friday June 12, 2020 @11:51AM (#23500435)
Web+ is integrated with the Haiku Network Kit and other things, accomplishing nothing for the end user. Most of the performance issues comes from there.
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