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Servo: Building a Parallel Browser

Linux.conf.au 2015 -- Auckland, New Zealand · talk · Watch on YouTube

Web developmentC, C++, Rust, Go & systems languages

What it is

Jack Moffitt presents Servo, an experimental browser engine written in Rust and designed to be parallel at every level, using multiple cores, the GPU, fork-join concurrency and SIMD. The talk covers motivations, architecture and plans for the project.

Why Hacker News recommends it

HN commenters cite it as a detailed source on Servo's design and performance, including plans to move Servo code into Gecko.

  • 1 people recommended it
  • 1 different months
  • 0 strong recommendations
  • first 2015, last 2017

What HN commenters said

  1. “There is another nice presentation on Rust and Servo”

    Presentation on Rust and Servo.

    buster, 2017-04 · Recommendation · in “Servo nightly builds on Windows now available”

Excerpts from Hacker News comments, linked to the originals. Summaries and labels were written by a language model from those comments.

Topics: servo, rust, browser engine, parallelism, css layout

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