Patrick Walton

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Several people have expressed interest in an HTML canvas-like API for Unity and so forth, and Pathfinder would be a great solution for this.

enhancement
help wanted
interesting project

It would be nice to have a PostScript *backend*, so that you can construct Pathfinder scenes and then print them. (This has potential Firefox applications.)

enhancement
interesting project

This is useful in some cases.

enhancement

Culprit in the stack trace: `azure::azure_hl::DrawTarget::new(backend=Skia, size=(width = 11621, height = 109884), format=B8G8R8A8`

Apparently it's possible to get null derefs in `DrawTarget`. That should be forbidden!

I'm worried about the file descriptor limit being an ever-present failure mode. Chromium and Gecko multiplex everything over one socket, and I'm beginning to think we should too.

It would be nice to have one-shot routes instead of requiring callers to do option dances. This first came up in servo/servo#6884.

This commit makes us stop using the render world ECS for `BinnedRenderPhase` and `SortedRenderPhase` and instead use resources with `EntityHashMap`s inside. There are three reasons to do this: 1. We...

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The underlying allocation algorithm is [`offset-allocator`], which is a port of [Sebastian Aaltonen's `OffsetAllocator`]. It's a fast, simple hard real time allocator in the two-level segregated fit family. Allocations are...

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Go to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arkanoid_Controller and notice that there is space between the left of the floated image and its table, but not on the right. Also notice that the caption underneath...

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