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krzat on Aug 25, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: Off-main-thread HTML parsing in Servo

I guess one of goals of Rust is to make these sort of optimisations viable (compiler provides safety nets). Will be nice to see what they can do.

hsivonen on Aug 25, 2017 [–]

Gecko has had off-the-main thread HTML parsing since Firefox 4. Docs: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Gecko/HTML_...

WebKit/Blink put fewer parts of the HTML parser off the main thread, so negative results should not be taken to apply to more comprehensive approaches.

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