[Webkit-unassigned] [Bug 106127] [meta] HTML parser shouldn't block the main thread

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https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=106127


Adam Barth <abarth at webkit.org> changed:

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--- Comment #7 from Adam Barth <abarth at webkit.org>  2013-01-08 12:44:49 PST ---
> Over a run of bunch of real world web sites we seem to have ~3% of main thread CPU time in the HTML tokenization and parsing (excluding the actual tree building, the most expensive part).

Why you say "tree building," do you mean the work down by the HTMLTreeBuilder object or the actually parserAppendChild/attach calls?  We should be able to move HTMLTreeBuilder onto the background thread, but we probably would not be able to move parserAppendChild or attach.

nduca did some measurements with Chromium's telemetry profiler (which uses the inspector timeline's notion of what constitutes HTML parsing time).  On a selection of 25 popular web sites, he sees the parser using between 2% and 8% of main thread CPU time (with an average of 5%).  Some examples on the high end (i.e., >=7%) are games.yahoo.com, www.youtube.com, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia, and pinterest.com.

These numbers seem consistent with Antti's measurements given that Antti is likely excluding some amount of tree building work that the inspector is charging to the parser.

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