On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 1:27 PM, Matt Perry <mpcompl...@chromium.org> wrote:
> Thanks for taking the time to send this out. It was a good learning
> experience. I have a tangential comment/question, but didn't think it
> was worth splitting off a second thread.
>
> Any thoughts how well extensions will play with our drawing system?
> Our plan is to allow multiple surface areas in the UI which will be
> drawn by renderers. Chrome's current backing store cache seems like
> it was optimized for the 1-tab-at-a-time case, but soon we will be
> able to have multiple renderers (an arbitrary number, really) visible
> at all times.
>
> What happens if the number of visible renderers exceeds the cache
> limit? Obviously it's possible to pull tabs out and show more than 5
> windows at once. Will this be bad for performance?
>
Yeah. That is a problem we'll need to address. Ideally, we'd change the
cache limit to be based on total bytes instead.
-Darin
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