I've seen the "flexbox was created because floats were too slow" meme a few times and it seems clearly wrong to me. Where did it come from?
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Replying to @pcwalton
@pcwalton@SimonSapin Me, the originator of (modern) Flexbox. It's not always true, but Flexbox can be much faster.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @tabatkins
@tabatkins@simonsapin Than floats? I get that it's faster than doing layout in JS, but how is it faster than floats in a non-parallel impl?1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @pcwalton
@pcwalton@SimonSapin Because it was? At least in our impl, I dunno. I'm not deep into the weeds on our layout engine.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
Replying to @tabatkins
@tabatkins @simonsapin Seems unlikely to me (at least in Servo); float placement is extremely quick, usually O(1) per float.
2:19 PM - 17 Mar 2016
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