On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 5:27 PM, Oliver Hunt <oli...@apple.com> 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 >> hardware in browser algorithms like lexing, parsing, selectors, JS >> compilation, JS execution, layout, DOM interactions, fonts, rendering, etc. > > JS execution and DOM manipulation are single threaded, and that thread is the > UI thread, this fact cannot be changed. JS compilation is also done lazily > in webkit so we don't ever end up with multiple pieces of code to compile > concurrently.
We could potentially do HTML parsing on off the main thread. Firefox 4 has support for this. It's unclear how much of a win this would be. Adam _______________________________________________ webkit-dev mailing list webkit-dev@lists.webkit.org http://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/webkit-dev
