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Re:Grid Style Sheets – CSS polyfills from the future by smrtinsert on Thursday March 06, 2014 @11:17AM (#7354587)
Another article I've seen recently pitted Yahoos engineers simple set of equations vs the Carroway solver and it was slower by a 1000-10000 times or so, hah. I think ultimately the time is negligible since you'll run it maybe one or twice on a complete page.

The point is that you don't have to re code an entire set of equations for a new layout. That's big for designers to not have to involve coders (in theory).

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Re:Grid Style Sheets – CSS polyfills from the future by bergie on Thursday March 06, 2014 @11:22AM (#7354638)
Well, web developers already have to implement design constraints into CSS. Now you just do it by manually calculating and hardcoding positions and sizes. With GSS you can offload a lot of that effort to the constraint solver.
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