I will repeat what I said earlier, and I should know, because I'm
running Quantum Render. There was never a suggestion that Photon should
be waiting for Quantum Render, or a WebRender subset of it. The
graphics team has been monitoring the Photon plans to see if something
surprising is coming up.
And there are no regressions with Quantum Render; the users that are not
qualified for the WebRender path in Quantum Render will get something
that's at worst as good as what they have today.
As far as the order of operations goes - I actually prefer what's
happening today, with Photon showing up before, or at the same time as
Quantum Render. Jack and I just happen to disagree on that point.
On 18-Apr-17 13:53, Justin Dolske wrote:
On Tue, Apr 18, 2017 at 1:19 AM, Jack Moffitt <j...@metajack.im> wrote:
Another really nice effort that is starting to unfold and I'm super
excited
about is the new Photon performance project
<https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1348289>, which is a
focused
effort on the front-end performance. This includes everything from
engineering the new UI with things like animations running on the
compositor in mind from the get-go, being laser focused on guaranteeing
good performance on key UI interactions such as tab opening and closing,
and lots of focused measurements and fixes to the browser front-end.
I think the order of operations here is unfortunate. What we'd prefer
is that WebRender land first, and then Photon be designed around what
is possible in the GPU-backed world.
That's a complete non-starter. Photon work is already underway, and there's
a _ton_ of work to do for the 57 release.
Blocking Photon on another major project landing first would mean canceling
Photon for 57.
Justin
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