WR now has a concept of font templates and font instances. This
makes the WR font interfaces closer to Cairo and Gecko, and also
makes some future performance optimizations possible.
A font template is the font family, and data backing the font.
A font instance is a reference to a font template and per-instance
options, such as font size, anti-aliasing settings etc.
To update Servo in a minimally invasive way, I added a new font
cache call, that creates a font instance. This means that when
a font is created, and doesn't exist in the cache there are now
two calls to the font cache thread. We could refactor the font
cache to make this work in one call, which we should do in the
future. However, refactoring the font cache is a large chunk of
work by itself. The extra call is only when a font doesn't already
exist in the font context cache, so it should have minimal
performance impact.
The alias is left there temporarilly and will be removed completely in a later commit where
also components/style/gecko/generated/structs_{debug|release}.rs are re-generated (they still
use the old alias).
This removes paint threads, rust-layers dependency, and changes
optional webrender types to be required.
The use_webrender option has been removed, however I've left
the "-w" command line option in place so that wpt
runner can continue to pass that. Once it's removed from there
we can also remove the -w option.
Once this stage is complete, it should be fine to change the
display list building code to generate webrender display
lists directly and avoid the conversion step.
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!
On http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spotted_hyena, I was seeing a 100% miss
rate in the first fast cache lookup and 45% of total layout time in this
function. After making this change, the first cache lookup almost always
succeeds, and the time spent in this function drops to 8%.
This will allow reporting of memory usage by FreeType instances, which
are measured in the MiBs for LayoutWorker threads.
This change also makes FreeType allocations happen with jemalloc instead
of the system malloc, which is a good thing.
Finally, the change documents some dubiousness involving
FontContextHandle.
The util component specified fnv and smallvec as dependencies and publicly
reexported both of them. Several other components utilized these reexports,
presumably because fnv and smallvec used to live in the tree so reexporting
made the transition easier.
These indirect dependencies through the util component are unnecessary.
This commit removes the fnv & smallvec crate reexports in the util component.
It exchange, it adds fnv & smallvec as dependencies to non-util components
wherever needed. Finally, it removes the fnv dependency from util as it is not
utilized anywhere in the util component.
