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Grant
Theme fund: NGI Zero Core
Start: 2024-06

Multiprocess Mode in Servo

Speed up Servo with parallelisation

While Servo already has multi-process mode, it’s not enabled by default. The main reason is that it isn’t completely supported on every platform yet. Only Linux and macOS have full support. It also isn't tested in the WPT suite. In this project, we want to complete the feature set of multi-process mode in Servo, set it to default, and encourage other projects based on Servo (like the Verso browser) to use it, as they could massively benefit from this multi-process architecture.

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This project was funded through the NGI0 Core Fund, a fund established by NLnet with financial support from the European Commission's Next Generation Internet programme, under the aegis of DG Communications Networks, Content and Technology under grant agreement No 101092990.