Blink Update

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Published on January 10, 2014 10:57:29 PM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Sm-DbIOqiU

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Developer Advocate Paul Irish hosts Eric Seidel for an update on Chrome's Blink rendering engine. [[ Click `show more` to view the talk overview ]]

Talk overview:
* Growth in Blink community and codebase
* Architectural refactors
* Project priorities: de-jank the main thread, make the fast path easy
* Near-term roadmap: web components perf, web animations, better compositor integration, platform-independent fonts, and no more vendor prefixes
* Performance, Performance, Performance
* Medium-term roadmap: SVG layers, removing widget tree, supporting OOP iframes, unitied C++/JS GC (Oilpan), deprecate unused features
* Speculative ideas: parallelize more operations, JITting style resolution, a opt-in fast mode, swappable components

Slides: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/10Xhg7IJCB0VZJDea4RueLHY6fOnLbwjkX0WHwdvoM0I/edit


View all the talks from the BlinkOn conference: http://bit.ly/blinkon2013