
The Novel Engines: Servo (Web Ecosystem Health Part X)
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The Differences Between Gecko and Servo
Almost everything that involves a DOM API has to be implemented again. Canvas, it's a special case too, because not only is it a DOM API, but it actually is also a vector rasterization engine. Gecko and servo do completely differently. They share a web content rasterizer, but the vector rasterizer is different. In general, CSS is much easier to rasterize on a GPU than a vector in Canvas.
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