Hi Mike, > This sounds like a massive improvement to our rendering pipeline, definitely > worth of some PR effort! Is that being considered?
We’ve had a PR effort before when Silk landed on b2g. It hit hacker news and received over 10K views IIRC on mozilla hacks, so I’m not keen on doing another one. > Is this expected to have an impact on Talos numbers? I’d expect them to > improve, but that probably also depends on the hardware used for the Talos > infrastructure. There are a few cases where talos numbers changed, but I don’t expect a big change. Software timers were already going at the same rate as hardware vsync, just not as accurately. Talos usually measures how fast we do something. Since we technically should be rendering at the same rate, just more precisely, the numbers should be more stable, but not necessarily better. We don’t have a lot of talos numbers on smoothness yet, but separate tests which specifically measure smoothness do improve. Mason > On Mar 12, 2015, at 2:27 AM, Mike de Boer <mdeb...@mozilla.com> wrote: > > Congratulations to all! > > This sounds like a massive improvement to our rendering pipeline, definitely > worth of some PR effort! Is that being considered? > > Is this expected to have an impact on Talos numbers? I’d expect them to > improve, but that probably also depends on the hardware used for the Talos > infrastructure. > > Cheers, > > Mike. > >> On 12 Mar 2015, at 02:12, Mason Chang <mch...@mozilla.com> wrote: >> >> Hi all, >> >> Project Silk (http://www.masonchang.com/blog/2015/1/22/project-silk), which >> aligns rendering to vsync, will be landing over the next couple of weeks >> (bug 1071275). You should expect smoother animations and scrolling while >> browsing the web. It'll land in 4 parts, with the vsync compositor on OS X >> landing today. We'll start landing the vsync compositor on Windows a week or >> two from now, then the vsync refresh driver's on OSX and Windows a week or >> two after the vsync compositor. If you have any issues, please file bugs and >> make them block bug 1071275. >> >> Thanks to Jerry Shih, Benoit Girard, Kartikaya Gupta, Jeff Muizelaar, and >> Markus Stange for helping get this on desktop! >> >> Thanks, >> Mason >> _______________________________________________ >> dev-platform mailing list >> dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org >> https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform > _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
