Ulan Degenbaev
Abstract
Google’s Chrome web browser strives to deliver a smooth user experience. An animation will update the screen at 60 FPS (frames per second), giving Chrome around 16.6 milliseconds to perform the update. Within these 16.6 ms, all input events have to be processed, all animations have to be performed, and finally the frame has to be rendered. A missed deadline will result in dropped frames. These are visible to the user and degrade the user experience. Such sporadic animation artifacts are referred to here as jank. This article describes an approach implemented in the JavaScript engine V8, used by Chrome, to schedule garbage-collection pauses during times when Chrome is idle. This approach can reduce user-visible jank on real-world web pages and results in fewer dropped frames.
- Degenbaev, U., Eisinger, J., Ernst, M., McIlroy, R., Payer, H. 2016. Idle time garbage collection scheduling. In Proceedings of the ACM SIGPLAN Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation. Google Scholar
Digital Library
- Degenbaev, U., Eisinger, J., Ernst, M., McIlroy, R., Payer, H. 2016. PLDI'16 Artifact: Idle time garbage collection scheduling; PLDI'16, June 13-17, 2016, Santa Barbara, CA, USA ACM. 978-1-4503-4261-2/16/06, pages 570-583. https://goo.gl/AxvigS. Google ScholarDigital Library
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Index Terms
- Idle-Time Garbage-Collection Scheduling: Taking advantage of idleness to reduce dropped frames and memory consumption
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