[webkit-dev] delaying paint event

[Simon Fraser]

There is already code to do this. Search for "suppressesIncrementalRendering".

Simon

On Oct 4, 2012, at 7:34 PM, Richard Taylor wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I am working on modifying webkit to delay paint events until all page
> content has been downloaded from the web. Once achieved I would like to test
> on a mobile device and apply a DVFS algorithm to run the CPU at a low
> frequency during the download phase and a "normal" frequency at rendering
> "painting". From previous research I believe that the parsing of the HTML
> content and DOM tree construction uses little CPU power so I think the low
> frequency shouldn't effect the performance too much. 
> 
> Specifically as I would like to test this on an Android device I have been
> looking into the Android source version of WebKit. Within this I have
> noticed the code WebViewCore.removeMessages(WebView.EventHub.WebKit_Draw)
> that blocks pending draw events from occurring, I was wondering whether I
> could use this to block the paint events before the page has finished its
> loading. I hope someone could share some light on this issue for me.
> 
> Thanks,
> Richard