[Webkit-unassigned] [Bug 43903] Speeding up SVG filters with multicore (SMP) support

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https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=43903





--- Comment #37 from Zoltan Herczeg <zherczeg at webkit.org>  2011-04-07 11:21:15 PST ---
(In reply to comment #36)
> Libdispatch is different in recognizing that no single application knows what happens with the rest of the system, so no application can know how many concurrent threads to use. Instead, you supply small tasks, and it makes sure to optimize parallelism globally and dynamically.
> 
> Since it's open source, you can use it on other operating systems, although the benefits are smaller without kernel support.

This is good news, it fits to the current approach. Basically we would return the optimal number of threads and let the system execute them in any order.

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