Was wondering if Stylo (Firefox Quantum’s CSS engine) is the largest consumer deployment of a CPU work stealing algorithm. Are there others?
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Work stealing is not really that new of a concept, in games it's used extensively and I think modern game engines install base >> Stylo installs. Our
@CoherentLabs HTML renderers have WS queues inside and I roughly estimate installs with games using them to ~100M on PC+consoles1 reply 0 retweets 1 like -
I don't think many modern game engines use work stealing tbh, pretty sure they mostly use global work queues.
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That was my impression as well.
10:17 AM - 24 Jan 2018
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