There is already code to do this. Search for "suppressesIncrementalRendering".
Simon On Oct 4, 2012, at 7:34 PM, Richard Taylor wrote: > Hello, > > I am working on modifying webkit to delay paint events until all page > content has been downloaded from the web. Once achieved I would like to test > on a mobile device and apply a DVFS algorithm to run the CPU at a low > frequency during the download phase and a "normal" frequency at rendering > "painting". From previous research I believe that the parsing of the HTML > content and DOM tree construction uses little CPU power so I think the low > frequency shouldn't effect the performance too much. > > Specifically as I would like to test this on an Android device I have been > looking into the Android source version of WebKit. Within this I have > noticed the code WebViewCore.removeMessages(WebView.EventHub.WebKit_Draw) > that blocks pending draw events from occurring, I was wondering whether I > could use this to block the paint events before the page has finished its > loading. I hope someone could share some light on this issue for me. > > Thanks, > Richard _______________________________________________ webkit-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo/webkit-dev
