Fastest browser engine by far at 500 FPS! Servo Webrender - CSS on the GPU part 2: Demo
Why Hacker News recommends it
Referenced as the exciting demo that set expectations for Servo and WebRender speedups, later compared with Firefox's real results.
What it is
A demo excerpt from a 2016 Bay Area Rust meetup showing Servo's WebRender drawing CSS on the GPU at very high frame rates. It presents the promise of GPU-based browser rendering.
Recommended by 0 HN commenters across 0 different months, 2017 to 2023.
What Hacker News said
Cites ZenoArrow · 2017-01 · on “Transitioning Firefox's rendering engine from Gecko to Servo”
>"If performance is not competitive" I don't think this will be a problem. One example... [LINK] [this video]
Cites UtherII · 2017-04 · on “Servo nightly builds on Windows now available”
I'm not so sure. I remember a presentation of Webrender with nice demos : [this video] Everything was perfecty smooth, but according to pcwalton the bottleneck was CSS handling.
Cites Touche · 2017-09 · on “Firefox Quantum Lands in Beta, Developer Edition”
Can someone more in the know explain if this uses webrender or not? I thought that it did... I have to admit that I'm not super impressed with the results here. Based on the talk that pcwalton did: [this video] I was expected it not to just be a little faster than Chrome, but to, like, double the speed, or more. Is it that these are just not good candidates for showing how much faster than webrender can be? Or has Firefox slowed it down vs. in Servo maybe?
Cites haberman · 2023-03 · on “Leveraging Rust and the GPU to render user interfaces at 120 FPS”
This sounds really similar to the story we were hearing about Servo back in 2016: [this video] I was really excited when I saw that demo. Why didn't this turn into a final product that people could use?