One example might be the startup performance improvement stuff I looked into. Which is faster on any browser except chrome, so we might want to do something in a v8 specific permutation instead of doing that to safari as well.
On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 10:37 PM, Ray Cromwell <cromwell...@google.com>wrote: > One reason to have a permutation for blink is if we start doing VM > specific code gen (V8 vs Nitro vs *Monkey). Another is blink performance > around layout might require substantially different workarounds on Mobile > Safari. > > > > On Mon, May 27, 2013 at 11:42 AM, Matthew Dempsky <mdemp...@google.com>wrote: > >> [-gwt-steering, +gwt-contrib] >> >> On Mon, May 27, 2013 at 9:32 AM, Daniel Kurka <danku...@google.com>wrote: >> >>> We also need the permutations for blink. >>> >> >> Are there technical reasons for why we need to remove permutations to be >> able to add new ones? E.g., why can't we start using soft >> permutations<https://code.google.com/p/google-web-toolkit/wiki/SoftPermutations>by >> default to limit permutation growth from old or similar permutations? >> >> I'm also curious what reasons you had in mind for needing a >> Blink-specific permutation in GWT. Chromium and Firefox have policies now >> to avoid introducing vendor prefixes for new functionality, so a Blink >> permutation seems limited in use to working around bugs or performance >> tuning. >> >> Not to mention GWT's release and update cycles are much slower than >> Chromium and Firefox's, so it's likely our tweaks/workarounds are >> irrelevant before GWT users can start utilizing them. ;) >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "GWT Steering" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to gwt-steering+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >> >> >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "GWT Steering" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to gwt-steering+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > -- Google Germany GmbH *Dienerstr. 12* *80331 München* Registergericht und -nummer: Hamburg, HRB 86891 Sitz der Gesellschaft: Hamburg Geschäftsführer: Graham Law, Katherine Stephens -- http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Web-Toolkit-Contributors --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "GWT Contributors" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to google-web-toolkit-contributors+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
