gecko-dev/gfx/wr
Nicolas Silva 36d0b0407a Bug 1648703 - Use a custom vector growth pattern in PrimitiveList. r=gw
This greatly reduces the number of vector reallocations happening while building primitive lists. On the difficult cases like youtube front page the reduction is a bit more than 50%, and more in other pages I tested. More importantly it dramatically reduces the amount of the most expensive of these reallocations which are when the vector is starting to get large.

Differential Revision: https://phabricator.services.mozilla.com/D81725
2020-07-01 07:01:18 +00:00
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ci-scripts
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direct-composition Bug 1646741 - Update gleam to 0.12. r=kvark 2020-06-18 18:11:13 +00:00
example-compositor Bug 1646741 - Update gleam to 0.12. r=kvark 2020-06-18 18:11:13 +00:00
examples Bug 1646741 - Update gleam to 0.12. r=kvark 2020-06-18 18:11:13 +00:00
glsl-to-cxx
peek-poke
swgl Bug 1648879 - SWGL on Windows upside down r=lsalzman 2020-06-30 00:09:39 +00:00
tileview
webrender Bug 1648703 - Use a custom vector growth pattern in PrimitiveList. r=gw 2020-07-01 07:01:18 +00:00
webrender_api Bug 1628657 - Make canvas use computed reference frame transforms. r=kvark 2020-06-11 20:46:05 +00:00
webrender_build
wr_malloc_size_of
wrench Bug 1647862 - Fix panic when casting large rects to i32. r=Bert 2020-06-28 22:00:56 +00:00
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Cargo.lock Bug 1646741 - Update gleam to 0.12. r=kvark 2020-06-18 18:11:13 +00:00
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LICENSE
README.md
rustfmt.toml
servo-tidy.toml

WebRender

Version

WebRender is a GPU-based 2D rendering engine written in Rust. Firefox, the research web browser Servo, and other GUI frameworks draw with it. It currently uses the OpenGL API internally.

Note that the canonical home for this code is in gfx/wr folder of the mozilla-central repository at https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central. The Github repository at https://github.com/servo/webrender should be considered a downstream mirror, although it contains additional metadata (such as Github wiki pages) that do not exist in mozilla-central. Pull requests against the Github repository are still being accepted, although once reviewed, they will be landed on mozilla-central first and then mirrored back. If you are familiar with the mozilla-central contribution workflow, filing bugs in Bugzilla and submitting patches there would be preferred.

Update as a Dependency

After updating shaders in WebRender, go to servo and:

  • Go to the servo directory and do ./mach update-cargo -p webrender
  • Create a pull request to servo

Use WebRender with Servo

To use a local copy of WebRender with servo, go to your servo build directory and:

  • Edit Cargo.toml
  • Add at the end of the file:
[patch."https://github.com/servo/webrender"]
"webrender" = { path = "<path>/webrender" }
"webrender_api" = { path = "<path>/webrender_api" }

where <path> is the path to your local copy of WebRender.

  • Build as normal

Documentation

The Wiki has a few pages describing the internals and conventions of WebRender.

Testing

Tests run using OSMesa to get consistent rendering across platforms.

Still there may be differences depending on font libraries on your system, for example.

See this gist for how to make the text tests useful in Fedora, for example.