On: The Path to Parallel JavaScript

[Joe8Bit]

Servo is actually in the process of implementing a parallel layout engine[1][2]

1: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Servo_(layout_engine) 2: http://pcwalton.github.io/blog/2014/02/25/revamped-parallel-...

[kibwen → Joe8Bit]

They've recently landed a tool that makes it possible to visualize the parallel rendering: https://github.com/servo/servo/pull/4969

[amelius → Joe8Bit]

Interesting. I wonder how they handle incremental rendering though. Only the forward-path is described in your reference [2].

[sanxiyn → amelius]

As far as I can tell there is nothing unusual or difficult here. Servo's incremental layout implementation is here: https://github.com/servo/servo/blob/master/components/layout...