person_of_color

Tell me experts, why is this not practical. Can you put a HTML renderer on an FPGA?

ehsankia

Don't modern browsers already use GPU acceleration?

person_of_color

Do they acceleration DOM parsing, or just media that already has acceleration hooks provided by the OS?

lkbm
Firefox uses the GPU via WebRender[0]. I don't know what specific things it's used for, but I'm pretty sure it's not any of the DOM parsing. The GPU is used for the actual graphical rendering down the line -- compositing and such[1].

[0] https://github.com/servo/webrender

[1] https://hacks.mozilla.org/2017/10/the-whole-web-at-maximum-f...