Re: [webkit-dev] A Parallel Webkit?

2010-07-24 Thread Leo Meyerovich
I don't think that question is very pertinent to the list; it's more of a longterm thing. The es committee has little interest in it for the relevant future and I agree with this given the other needs, available slack time, and induced complexity. Luckily, a somewhat parallel browser does n

Re: [webkit-dev] A Parallel Webkit?

2010-07-24 Thread Oliver Hunt
> Shared-state parallel scripting (and concurrent DOM) seem inevitable I don't know why you believe this -- there is no intention of having shared state threading in ES, nor is there any desire in the ES technical committee to add any for of concurrency primitives to the language. --Oliver ___

Re: [webkit-dev] A Parallel Webkit?

2010-07-24 Thread Leo Meyerovich
>> JS compilation is also done lazily in webkit so we don't ever end up with >> multiple pieces of code to compile concurrently. Two of us have been focusing on speeding up bottlenecks like these to allow such synchronous interfaces. However, frameworks like TBB push towards having parallel t

Re: [webkit-dev] A Parallel Webkit?

2010-07-23 Thread Adam Barth
On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 5:27 PM, Oliver Hunt wrote: > On Jul 23, 2010, at 4:50 PM, Leo Meyerovich wrote: >>> I wasn't entirely sure what OP was after of if the reply below >>> adequately addressed his interests. >> >> WebKit2 seems to have little to do with taking advantage of parallel >> hardwar

Re: [webkit-dev] A Parallel Webkit?

2010-07-23 Thread Oliver Hunt
On Jul 23, 2010, at 4:50 PM, Leo Meyerovich wrote: > >> I wasn't entirely sure what OP was after of if the reply below >> adequately addressed his interests. > > WebKit2 seems to have little to do with taking advantage of parallel hardware > in browser algorithms like lexing, parsing, selector

Re: [webkit-dev] A Parallel Webkit?

2010-07-23 Thread Leo Meyerovich
> I wasn't entirely sure what OP was after of if the reply below > adequately addressed his interests. WebKit2 seems to have little to do with taking advantage of parallel hardware in browser algorithms like lexing, parsing, selectors, JS compilation, JS execution, layout, DOM interactions, fon

Re: [webkit-dev] A Parallel Webkit?

2010-07-23 Thread gao ying
Thanks Andras! I will take a look at this. -Ying 2010/7/23 Andras Becsi > Hi Ying, > > you might be looking for WebKit2, wich is a non-blocking API layer for > WebKit and aims to make WebKit more suitable for multicore systems. It > supports the split-process model and the thread model as well.

Re: [webkit-dev] A Parallel Webkit?

2010-07-23 Thread gao ying
for discussion ) but that relate > to observations on a few recent browsers on one series of mobile phones. > > > > > > > Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2010 22:20:34 +0200 > > From: abe...@inf.u-szeged.hu > > To: webkit-dev@li

Re: [webkit-dev] A Parallel Webkit?

2010-07-22 Thread Mike Marchywka
n one series of mobile phones. > Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2010 22:20:34 +0200 > From: abe...@inf.u-szeged.hu > To: webkit-dev@lists.webkit.org > Subject: Re: [webkit-dev] A Parallel Webkit? > > Hi Ying, > > you might be looking for WebKit

Re: [webkit-dev] A Parallel Webkit?

2010-07-22 Thread Andras Becsi
Hi Ying, you might be looking for WebKit2, wich is a non-blocking API layer for WebKit and aims to make WebKit more suitable for multicore systems. It supports the split-process model and the thread model as well. The API is currently under development for the Mac and Windows ports of WebKit

[webkit-dev] A Parallel Webkit?

2010-07-22 Thread gao ying
Hi, Is WebKit well parallel for fitting in multicore architecture? And any status for the parallel Webkit? The same idea is from http://www.eecs.berkeley.edu/~lmeyerov/projects/pbrowser/ Thanks, -Ying ___ webkit-dev mailing list webkit-dev@lists.webkit.