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Re:Servo, the parallel browser engine written in Rust by GeekyBear on Saturday May 27, 2023 @08:08AM (#36094041)
Parts of Servo to enable the use of the GPU for compositing layers were merged into Firefox years ago.

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

It's a shame that Patrick Walton didn't get a chance to finish his work on the Pathfinder GPU renderer.

>Pathfinder 3 is a fast, practical, GPU-based rasterizer for fonts and vector graphics using OpenGL 3.0+, OpenGL ES 3.0+, WebGL 2, and Metal.

https://github.com/servo/pathfinder

Re:Servo, the parallel browser engine written in Rust by dralley on Saturday May 27, 2023 @10:05AM (#36094936)
I wonder if it would be easier to finish if based on a wgpu backend, rather than having 4 separate backends.
Re:Servo, the parallel browser engine written in Rust by mandarax8 on Saturday May 27, 2023 @12:00PM (#36095783)
Opengl3/es3/webgl2 might as well be the same backend