Quantum (Mozilla)
Quantum is the name of a new upcoming layout engine of Mozilla Firefox web browser that will replace Gecko in the late 2017.[1] It has several components adopted from Servo project,[2] another browser engine written in Rust.
As one performance strategy, Quantum will increase parallelization and GPU offloading as compared to Gecko.[2]
References
- ^ Catalin Cimpanu. "Mozilla Announces Quantum, a New Browser Engine for Firefox". news.softpedia.com. Retrieved 2016-11-04.
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Bryant, David (27 October 2016). "A Quantum Leap for the Web". medium.com. Retrieved 2016-11-30.
Quantum starts from Gecko, and replaces major engine components that will benefit most from parallelization, or from offloading to the GPU.