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Fastest browser engine by far at 500 FPS! Servo Webrender - CSS on the GPU part 2: Demo

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A demo excerpt from a 2016 Bay Area Rust meetup showing Servo's WebRender drawing CSS on the GPU at very high frame rates. It presents the promise of GPU-based browser rendering.

Referenced as the exciting demo that set expectations for Servo and WebRender speedups, later compared with Firefox's real results.

Web developmentComputer graphics & renderingC, C++, Rust, Go & systems languages

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@ZenoArrow2017 ยท in โ€œTransitioning Firefox's rendering engine from Gecko to Servoโ€

>"If performance is not competitive" I don't think this will be a problem. One example... [LINK] [VIDEO]

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@UtherII2017 ยท in โ€œServo nightly builds on Windows now availableโ€

I'm not so sure. I remember a presentation of Webrender with nice demos : [VIDEO] Everything was perfecty smooth, but according to pcwalton the bottleneck was CSS handling.

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@Touche2017 ยท in โ€œFirefox Quantum Lands in Beta, Developer Editionโ€

Can someone more in the know explain if this uses webrender or not? I thought that it did... I have to admit that I'm not super impressed with the results here. Based on the talk that pcwalton did: [VIDEO] I was expected it not to just be a little faster than Chrome, but to, like, double the speed, or more. Is it that these are just not good candidates for showing how much faster than webrender can be? Or has Firefox slowed it down vs. in Servo maybe?

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@haberman2023 ยท in โ€œLeveraging Rust and the GPU to render user interfaces at 120 FPSโ€

This sounds really similar to the story we were hearing about Servo back in 2016: [VIDEO] I was really excited when I saw that demo. Why didn't this turn into a final product that people could use?

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