I've been working on some canvas code that is an animation doing many fills of different colors. I've spent some time profiling my code, and the majority of time (over 8%) spent in WebKit is in the CSS parser. The current canvas spec only allows you to set colors as a string that goes through the CSS parser "rgb(1, 2, 3)", etc, or as a gradient. The gradient color points are also CSS color strings, so creating gradients also requires going through the parser.
Does anyone have thoughts on allowing fillStyle / strokeStyle (and probably the gradient color points also) to take an array of RGB / RGBA? This would allow for much more efficient color setup, and would be a very trivial change to the current DOM binding code. I can submit a bug and patch to make the sfx / v8 DOM binding changes, but since it's something standardsy, I wanted to make sure to put it out there and solicit opinions. I think it's a pretty big weakness now that the only way you can set colors has to go through such a heavy parsing path. Thanks _______________________________________________ webkit-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/webkit-dev
