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Is it going to use Vulkan? Sounds like a good fit for proper parallelized rendering.

UPDATE: Ah, I see it's mentioned in the future work: https://github.com/servo/webrender/wiki#future-work

    Vulkan?
    This could possibly make some of the serial
    steps above able to be parallelized further.

So it will be using OpenGL then?

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Vulkan has been a consideration from the earliest architecturing steps done in WebRender. So, the internal pipelines are all set up to be mapped to Vulkan's pipelines.

It's actually OpenGL which fits less into the architecture, but it's still easier to just bundle WebRender's pipelines all together and then throw that into OpenGL.

Interesting. Will it eventually use vulkano library, or its own Vulkan bindings?

The awesome folks at Szeged University have been working with our team on both Vulkan and native DX11 backends!

That's great!

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