Re:Flow Browser: Flow makes HTML faster
by johnhenry on Tuesday March 01, 2022 @10:59AM
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Can these techniques be used to improve performance in other browsers?
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Re:Flow Browser: Flow makes HTML faster
by jillesvangurp on Tuesday March 01, 2022 @01:12PM
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They already are. Mozilla Firefox uses a lot of multi threading and offloads a lot of the rendering to the GPU. So does Chrome. That's a big reason why Mozilla invented Rust: to be able to do this without dealing with a lot of concurrency, security, and stability bugs.
The creator of Rust has been very clear that Mozilla did not invent Rust (https://twitter.com/graydon_pub/status/1492634815748739077)
Re:Flow Browser: Flow makes HTML faster
by jillesvangurp on Wednesday March 02, 2022 @02:26AM
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I stand corrected.
But lets just say they were extremely early adopters and single-handedly propelled Rust into the mainstream by essentially bankrolling Rust development for several years until they finally spun it off into a separate foundation a few years ago.
I doubt it as it has a "proprietary rendering engine", but Servo (https://servo.org/) has been doing a similar thing and from what I remember, it is basically a safe multi-threaded rendering engine.