WebRender is an experimental GPU accelerated rendering backend for Servo.
The WebRender backend can be specified by running Servo with the -w option (otherwise the default rendering backend will be used).
WebRender has many bugs, and missing features - but it is usable to browse most websites - please report any WebRender specific rendering bugs you encounter!
This should help fix some intermittent failures where this error message was
printed intertwined with the test results, causing wptrunner to not notice
the results.
The idea here is to land this before making images and canvas IPC-safe,
because this will shake out bugs relating to the shared memory. There
are currently test timeouts that are preventing multiprocess images and
canvas from landing, and I believe those are due to the inefficiency of
sending large amounts of data in the unoptimized builds we test with. By
moving to shared memory, this should drastically reduce the number of
copies and `serde` serialization.
Under the hood, this uses Mach OOL messages on Mac and temporary
memory-mapped files on Linux.
This commit introduces the `serde` dependency, which we will use to
serialize messages going between processes in multiprocess Servo.
This also adds a new debugging flag, `-Z print-display-list-json`,
allowing the output of display list serialization to be visualized.
This will be useful for our experiments with alternate rasterizers.
