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Servo nightly builds on Windows now available

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Re: Servo nightly builds on Windows now available

#2
I loved reading https://github.com/servo/servo/issues/12125. It is a great example of open source persistence despite it not being a priority. Things move forward at snail pace and stalls multiple times. Just when all hope seems lost, they manage to ship it ! This is the case with most opensource projects - things take their own sweet time but they eventually somehow manage.

On a side note, I noted that https://github.com/larsbergstrom owns lars.com. Wow! I wonder how much that is worth given that every 5th german is named lars ;) (though strom seems to indicate he is norwegian)

Re: Servo nightly builds on Windows now available

#4
After seeing a youtube demo[[1] of how the aggressive parallelisation that is done in Servo (safely possible by using Rust) speeds up this browser, i'm really excited for Servo! Also, i think this will give us a great base for all kinds of browser embedding what is not based on ancient webkit-gtk.

There is another nice presentation on Rust and Servo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7q9vIMXSTzc

[1]: https://youtu.be/UGl9VVIOo3E?t=1019

Re: Servo nightly builds on Windows now available

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Very, very nonresponsive. Sometimes when I press a letter in a form, it won't respond at all, but when I press it again, it will show up... and then when I press the next letter, the previous letter shows up. Which I thought was strange behavior.

EDIT: When I say "won't respond at all," I counted to 30 before the next keypress eventually just to verify I was really seeing what I was seeing.

Re: Servo nightly builds on Windows now available

#9
post #3

This project has moved real slowly but keep remembering how often Eich referred to this as the most important aspect of Mozilla.

Talking is easy, Coding is Hard. Servo is still the most important aspect of Mozilla in terms of Security and Speed, I really think after the full development it will definitely beat the Google Chrome.

Re: Servo nightly builds on Windows now available

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post #8

Very, very nonresponsive. Sometimes when I press a letter in a form, it won't respond at all, but when I press it again, it will show up... and then when I press the next letter, the previous letter shows up. Which I thought was strange behavior. EDIT: When I say "won't respond at all," I counted to 30 before the next keypress eventually just to verify I was really seeing what I was seeing.

Did you build with --release flag?
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