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Servo Architecture: Safety and Performance

linux conf au 2017 - Hobart, Australia · talk · Watch on YouTube

C, C++, Rust, Go & systems languagesWeb developmentSoftware performance & optimization

What it is

Jack Moffitt presents the architecture of Servo, Mozilla's experimental browser engine written in Rust, focusing on parallelism across cores, GPUs and SIMD and the safety properties gained from Rust.

Why Hacker News recommends it

HN recommends it as an exciting look at how a browser can be rebuilt for performance and safety, including the WebRender ideas that fed into Firefox Quantum.

  • 3 people recommended it
  • 3 different months
  • 1 strong recommendations
  • first 2017, last 2017

What HN commenters said

  1. “This video is one of the most exciting I have seen with regards to web browser performance, and it's Mozilla”

    Exciting talk on web browser performance from Mozilla.

    yoasif_, 2017-01 · Strong recommendation · in “I cannot continue working on my add-ons”

  2. “Here is another great talk”

    Great talk including a bit on Quantum around 25:30.

    NiLSPACE, 2017-04 · Recommendation · in “Mozilla and Microsoft are rebuilding their browsers’ foundations”

  3. “I also recommend Metajack's talk on WebRender in Servo”

    Metajack's talk on WebRender in Servo.

    lkbm, 2017-10 · Recommendation · in “The web at maximum FPS: How WebRender gets rid of jank”

Excerpts from Hacker News comments, linked to the originals. Summaries and labels were written by a language model from those comments.

Topics: servo, rust, webrender, parallelism, mozilla

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