WebRender2 Lands In The Servo Browser Engine

[phoronix]

Phoronix: WebRender2 Lands In The Servo Browser Engine

WebRender, the GPU-accelerated back-end for Mozilla's Servo browser layout engine, has seen a large number of improvements with WebRender2...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=WebRender2-Servo

[cl333r]

Servo fails to start on Ubuntu 16.04:
servo$ ./runservo.sh
./servo: error while loading shared libraries: libavformat.so.54: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

[monraaf]

Servo fails to start on Ubuntu 16.04:
servo$ ./runservo.sh
./servo: error while loading shared libraries: libavformat.so.54: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

https://github.com/servo/servo/issues/12687

[srakitnican]

Don't bother with symbolic links :P
./servo: /lib64/libcrypto.so.1.0.0: version `OPENSSL_1.0.0' not found (required by ./servo)
./servo: /lib64/libcrypto.so.1.0.0: version `OPENSSL_1.0.1d' not found (required by ./servo)
./servo: /lib64/libssl.so.1.0.0: version `OPENSSL_1.0.0' not found (required by ./servo)
./servo: /lib64/libavutil.so.52: version `LIBAVUTIL_52' not found (required by ./servo)
./servo: /lib64/libavformat.so.54: version `LIBAVFORMAT_54' not found (required by ./servo)

[Anvil]

Servo wont be usable atleast till early 2017. wonder if it'll be faster startup times than Firefox is now