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Servo Web Engine Now Leverages Multiple CPU Cores for Rendering HTML Tables (phoronix.com)
51 points by rbanffy 3 months ago | hide | past | favorite | 4 comments



Here's the (relatively small) commit: https://github.com/servo/servo/pull/32477/commits/d9b842ff6e...

It's using the par_iter() method from Rayon, a Rust data-parallelism library: https://docs.rs/rayon/latest/rayon/iter/index.html


Tangentially related:

> Alan Jeffrey (1967–2024)

> Alan Jeffrey, an early member of the Servo team and a key part of helping the Servo project find a new life outside of Mozilla, passed away on 4 July.

> His research has furthered a wide range of fields, including concurrent and distributed systems, programming languages, formal verification, software semantics, typesetting, protocol security, and circuit design.

RIP. He was a really well informed guy.


I would like to see a browser with servo, that contains a chromium fallback. Add a whitelist for all known sites that work and in addition a bug report tool for sites that do not work, when the users opt out of the whitelist.


What about a button to say "This page has a problem in Servo-Browser, and I really want to view it, so please open it in Firefox/Chromium/etc."?

It can have an optional mode, where a small text field appears, to say what symptom you saw, and then it submits to the Servo-Browser mothership as analytics (opt-in) before opening the page in Firefox/Chromium/etc.

There could also be a one-click way to give analytics for a page you wanted to open in Servo-Browser, but if it didn't work, you're just not going to view that site.




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