test_shell being a test shell used mostly for non-interactive testing, we haven't given a lot of concern to its perfomance AFAIK. I'm not even sure how long of a lifespan it'll have since we aim to merge/replace it with WebKit's DumpRenderTree at some point soon.
Is there some reason you're not just using Chromium in full screen mode? -- Dirk On Thu, Nov 5, 2009 at 1:18 PM, Alexander Teinum <atei...@gmail.com> wrote: > > For a personal project (well, an OS -- check out www.brevityos.org if > you're interested), I need something like test_shell in fullscreen > mode. The UI is basically an HTML-file with an iframe for every > document. CSS-classes are used to describe what application is active, > what documents are active etc. > > The problem is that for my project, test_shell performs bad compared > to Chromium. I have compiled with mode set to release, but it's still > noticeably slower. > > I've watched Darin Fisher and Brett Wilson's presentations about the > Chromium architecture on YouTube. If I've got it right, then > test_shell is below the layer that implements multi-processes. Brett > says that test_shell is based on WebKit glue. > > What needs to be done to make test_shell perform as good as Chromium? > I'm not suggesting that test_shell needs to be changed. I'll probably > do this in a separate directory under chromium-dir/src, or as a Linux > port of Chromium Embedded Framework, if Marshall wants CEF to be > multi-processed. > > -- > Best regards, > > Alexander Teinum > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Chromium Developers mailing list: chromium-dev@googlegroups.com View archives, change email options, or unsubscribe: http://groups.google.com/group/chromium-dev -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---