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Re:The Path to Parallel JavaScript by Joe8Bit on Thursday February 26, 2015 @05:20PM (#9115968)
Servo is actually in the process of implementing a parallel layout engine[1][2]

1: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Servo_(layout_engine) 2: http://pcwalton.github.io/blog/2014/02/25/revamped-parallel-...

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Re:The Path to Parallel JavaScript by kibwen on Thursday February 26, 2015 @05:39PM (#9116068)
They've recently landed a tool that makes it possible to visualize the parallel rendering: https://github.com/servo/servo/pull/4969
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Re:The Path to Parallel JavaScript by amelius on Thursday February 26, 2015 @05:32PM (#9116021)
Interesting. I wonder how they handle incremental rendering though. Only the forward-path is described in your reference [2].
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Re:The Path to Parallel JavaScript by sanxiyn on Thursday February 26, 2015 @06:18PM (#9116246)
As far as I can tell there is nothing unusual or difficult here. Servo's incremental layout implementation is here: https://github.com/servo/servo/blob/master/components/layout...
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