[GTALUG] getting Firefox to exploit GPU

[Alex Volkov]

What a trove of information on firefox capabilities.

This one is particularly interesting.

> Some performance results (surely on Windows):
> <https://metrics.mozilla.com/webrender/dashboard_amd.html>

Web render seems to be already enabled in Windows for Nvidia and AMD cards.

https://wiki.mozilla.org/Platform/GFX/WebRender_Where

> Maybe this is a topic for questions at our next meeting "The state of 
Mozilla with Mike Hoye".  But having raw data ahead of time would be
great.

Yes, this is definitely an good question to ask Mike.

Alex.

On 2019-10-04 1:31 p.m., D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote:
> | From: Alex Volkov via talk <talk at gtalug.org>
>
> | I want to try this out on my GPU. Is there an easy way to benchmark
> | performance in firefox?
>
> An excellent question.  I don't know anything about that.  I'm sure
> that there are lots of benchmarks "out there".
>
> - many will stress JavaScript performance -- unaffected, I would
>    expect
>
> - my *guess* that this won't affect playing videos because I suspect
>    that these are not rendered by WebRender (I don't actually know)
>
>
>
> ================
>
> I did a bit of googling.  I found this:
> <https://mozillagfx.wordpress.com/>
>
> This explains that WebRender is new Rust code that replaces a whole
> bunch of old code in the for rendering web pages.
> <https://mozillagfx.wordpress.com/2019/05/21/graphics-team-ships-webrender-mvp/>
>
> This seems to be a wiki page for the project
> <https://wiki.mozilla.org/Platform/GFX/Quantum_Render>
>
> Some performance results (surely on Windows):
> <https://metrics.mozilla.com/webrender/dashboard_amd.html>
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