On Wed, Aug 04, 2010 at 11:18:18PM +0200, stefan hakansson wrote: > Honestly, it is more of a guess. But my understanding is that QtWebKit uses > GStreamer for media, and that GStreamer is in turn using the available > platform resources in an efficient way. In contrast (still to my > understanding that may be wrong) browsers such as Chrome and Fennec uses > their own media frameworks that are in a much worse position when it comes > to utilize platform specific capabilities.
I would assume the biggest performance win would be from not loading yet another dom parser, javascript interpreter (or bytecode compiler as it is), renderers and whatnot into memory (since Qt has these already). (That the JS engine in QtWebKit is much faster than the one in Fennec, as well as the hardware-accelerated rendering are just a bonus, IMHO, though I don't think WebKit has the HW-accelerated pixmap compositing from KHTML yet. This is stuff that may or may not be solved in future releases of Fennec.) -- Martin Sandsmark IT-Komiteen, Samfundet :wq _______________________________________________ MeeGo-dev mailing list MeeGo-dev@meego.com http://lists.meego.com/listinfo/meego-dev
