Random notes on making Gecko's canvas go fast on XO...

[Peter Robinson]

> Over the last few weeks there's been growing interest in using the
> support for HTML5's Canvas present in Browse.xo. A very quick test
> felt fairly slow, but Alex and his colleagues are interested in
> studying, profiling and working towards a solution.
>
> So here's some notes I've collected for them -- it's not my area of
> expertise anyway, so it'd be great to hear from others.
>
> Cairo and 565 surfaces. The XO display doesn't use 8-bits per RBG
> channel (aka 888). Instead, it downsamples colours to 565 (is that
> still true?). If the whole stack is using 565, then we avoid costly
> downsampling, and generally hit the fast paths...
> http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/sugar/2007-April/002247.html

You might want to look at what mozilla is doing with fennec, their
mobile browser, in regards to speed. Their weekly meeting notes [1]
cover quite a few bits performance stuff for small devices. They have
a bug open for 565 perf stuff [2]. But if you look back through the
meeting notes there's a number of bugs that would help perf on small
machine for everything from sqllite to rendering etc... there are some
incomplete notes here [3]

Cheers,
Peter

[1] https://wiki.mozilla.org/Mobile/Notes
[2] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=485426
[3] https://wiki.mozilla.org/Mobile/Performance