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		satvikpendem on May 28, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Servo, the parallel browser engine written in Rust Those examples are both using...the GPU. No wonder you can make websites fast if you offload everything to a separate processing unit. Which unironically is one reason why people are pushing for WASM and GPU rendering for canvas as an application platform.

jupp0r on May 30, 2023 [–]

Modern browsers use GPUs extensively in their rendering engines. Here's a nice overview presentation on Chrome's rendering pipeline, for example: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1i1Brb5FTmjStDpnUeKBp...

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