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Mozilla's GFX-RS 0.8 Released For Vulkan Portability - Brings Big Changes
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Originally posted by bug77 View Post
What code optimizations? Do you see Firefox lagging because of 3D operations?
Firefox makes light use of 3D rendering, the underlying API is not a bottleneck.
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Originally posted by nokipaike View Postjust out of curiosity, Firefox on Zink (which is a very soon wrapper OpenGL 4.6 to Vulkan) do you think it has some performance advantage?
i guess a real port of firefox to Vulkan has real advantages by exploiting code optimizations otherwise not possible on OpenGL.
Firefox makes light use of 3D rendering, the underlying API is not a bottleneck.
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I would be surprised if ffx on zink would be any faster. As the existing drivers are quite optimized. Firefox on gfx-rs is a whole different story. It is a thin wrapper above Vulkan or DirectX 12 and thus should yield performance improvements, if the port is good.
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just out of curiosity, Firefox on Zink (which is a very soon wrapper OpenGL 4.6 to Vulkan) do you think it has some performance advantage?
i guess a real port of firefox to Vulkan has real advantages by exploiting code optimizations otherwise not possible on OpenGL.
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Originally posted by bug77 View PostMoving over to Vulkan stuff that doesn't need Vulkan is not something to look forward too. It increases the application's code complexity, because some stuff that OpenGL handled in the driver is now on the application to manage.
Originally posted by kvark View PostAlso, this isn't "Mozilla's" - it's a Rust community project. Edit: And the release is for "gfx-portability" specifically, which is a Vulkan C API wrapper around gfx-rs (release is not for gfx-rs itself, which is a Rust API).Last edited by wswartzendruber; 26 August 2020, 11:29 AM.
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Originally posted by nokipaike View Postso soon will we have firefox on top vulkan or is my imagination running too fast?
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Originally posted by nokipaike View Postso soon will we have firefox on top vulkan or is my imagination running too fast?
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so soon will we have firefox on top vulkan or is my imagination running too fast?
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This is a pre-release, as we are trying to migrate to Github Actions now, and we need a few iterations before we can get the release packaging working. So sorry about broken links until we get out of pre-release and make it a real one! Edit: now it's done for real - https://github.com/gfx-rs/portability/releases/tag/0.8
Also, this isn't "Mozilla's" - it's a Rust community project. Edit: And the release is for "gfx-portability" specifically, which is a Vulkan C API wrapper around gfx-rs (release is not for gfx-rs itself, which is a Rust API).Last edited by kvark; 25 August 2020, 11:39 PM.
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