status safari merge

[David Hyatt]

On Oct 19, 2003, at 12:30 PM, Dirk Mueller wrote:

> On Sunday 19 October 2003 21:17, Darin Adler wrote:
>
>> substantial work on optimizing repaint to make DHTML
>> much faster
>
> Is that the incremental rendering patch that was posted here a couple 
> of weeks
> ago or something different?
>

Yes, the patch I posted.  It has not yet been enabled in our tree.  I'm 
still working on it. :)

> I noticed as well a factor 3-4 performance regression in painting 
> since the
> paint actions were implemented, and I'm wondering if you did anything 
> already
> to tackle this problem.
>

My guess would be that you missed patching one of the RenderObjects to 
check for the appropriate paint phase, and so e.g., backgrounds may be 
painting multiple times (once for each paintaction).

dave