Servo: Building a Parallel Browser

Metajack mention power usage with parallelization briefly here[0], but doesn't provide the data. [0] ▶ this video (2015)

I suspect you will hear a lot of numbers around the time of the 57 launch, and until then people will keep quiet as they try to make the numbers that get revealed as good as possible. For old numbers, you can get some in some of my old presentations at conferences. I think the LCA 2015 one[1] has the most details in that regard. [1] ▶ this video

After seeing a youtube demo[[1] of how the aggressive parallelisation that is done in Servo (safely possible by using Rust) speeds up this browser, i'm really excited for Servo! Also, i think this will give us a great base for all kinds of browser embedding what is not based on ancient webkit-gtk. There is another nice presentation on Rust and Servo: ▶ this video [1]: link

In the video (at 35:39), they show the future plans and the plan is to start using bits of Servo code in Gecko. So, they will replace small parts of C++ code with Rust. ▶ this video One plan was to first replace easy parts, like image decoders (bmp/ico formats). link It won't be a one big replacement, more like a gradual take over.