[webkit-dev] Head-ups: massive TEXT rebaselining

[Julien Chaffraix]

Hi everyone,

> I will land https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=75568 tomorrow to
> give enough time for people to react. This makes us lazily allocate
> layers when we get layout overflow. The upside is a good speed-up in
> painting / hit-testing and (likely) some memory improvement but it
> also means that 100+ tests will need a new baseline. I have tried to
> skip those I know about in the different platforms but I may have
> forgotten severals.

The patch did land yesterday but I reverted it due to one hidden bug.
This may confuse certain tools (I had an issue with garden-o-matic
picking up the TEXT failures due to the patch one day after) so beware
if you intent to rebaseline.

An updated patch was just attached on the bug and will be landed upon
review (hopefully next week). To avoid spamming webkit-dev further, I
will post the updates on the bug.

Thanks,
Julien