Webkit Acceleration
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As the Principal Engineer for QuIC’s Web Technology team, one of the most common questions I’m faced with is, “Why is QuIC expending energy to help optimize Webkit?” Perhaps some people feel that actively participating in runs contrary to traditional business models.
OnQ Blog - Why is Qualcomm Innovation Center (QuIC) Investing in WebKit?
In contrast, with the software path, invalidating any layer requires repainting all layers (at least the overlapping portions of them) below and above it which unnecessarily taxes the CPU.
GPU Accelerated Compositing in Chrome - The Chromium Projects