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I compiled and tried servo+servo-shell just now:

- it compiles very fast, that's cool

- it doesn't render my static pages properly, albeit its not too bad

- its slow as hell (i did use --release for build and run)

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  > it compiles very fast

You must have lower standards than the Servo team, because pcwalton is rather irate at the current build time. :) Rust will be prioritizing massive advances on compilation speed for 1.1 and beyond.

It's definitely not slow at rendering. Network performance isn't great, but try resizing the window.

It's slower than Chrome on my 2011 Macbook Air. Which is disappointing, considering it doesn't yet implement the same features.

Did you build with optimizations enabled (./mach build --release)?

I did. I'll definitely have to check it out again, though, because it looks like pcwalton already fixed it! [1]

[1]: https://twitter.com/pcwalton/status/595287602153926656

The fix, for anyone who is curious:

https://github.com/servo/servo/pull/5936

Do you have a test case? What in particular were you doing?

Just some very unscientific tests: loaded a few sites on both Servo and Chrome and compared the effects of resizing their windows. For instance, the frame rate looked about the same on Wikipedia, but Servo struggled on Reddit.

Is Servo running on Windows? The comparison could be more precise on my 120hz Windows box.

No, it's not.

I'll check that test case again; we might have regressed something recently.

I've tried it a few times and it's been super slow for me as well. Maybe it's just slow on Linux.

Yeah, there are some linux issues (forgot what).

Also, default build is a debug build. Very slow.

Also, we fetch resources serially. It can be done in parallel, but we haven't gotten to that part yet.

What in particular were you doing?

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