[webkit-dev] parallel painting

[Zoltan Herczeg]

Hi,

Thank all of you for your feedbacks!

Let's continue this discussion in the bug report, I will provide more
details there.

Zoltan

> On Sat, Apr 3, 2010 at 9:32 PM, Zoltan Herczeg <zherczeg at inf.u-szeged.hu>
> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I am working on a parallel painting feature for WebKit (bug id: 36883).
>> Basically it records the painting commands on the main thread, and
>> replay
>> them on a painting thread. The gain would be that the recording
>> operation
>> is cheap. Currently it is Qt specific, but I could make it more platform
>> independent if other ports are interested.
>
> EFL port would be interested in this. Could you provide more details
> on the implementation? Is the painting thread a single thread, or is
> it being split to N cores?
>
> Did you consider the alternative that is isolate webkit layout in
> another thread as well? From our environment tests (embedded systems),
> re-layout process can take few seconds without any paint... that being
> done in the main thread hurts the whole experience as the event
> processing of menus, animations and others are blocked. In an ideal
> world WebKit would never block, it would just proxy input and output
> events to its thread (hard, error-prone... :-/), there it would
> layout, render and when ready release the main thread to use the
> painted contents (maybe tiles as the Qt port now enables).
>
> BR,
>
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