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Servo with Josh Matthews
Rustacean Station
How to Parallelize a Browser Engine
Rust is designed in a way that feels like it should be a model problem for describing how to parallelize a browser engine. There were at least three different attempts in Firefox over the space of like seven years that I was aware of, where people tried to like retrofit parallelism into Firefox. And each one was abandoned because the resulting code was just too complex to reason about and had too many subtle crashes. Meanwhile, we built in a servo from the beginning which effectively got the parallel traversal for free. Rust was a great investment for things like that. It's also more secure and faster than other engines such as Chrome or Opera.
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