Blink's Graph Data Structures and Traversals
The text provides an extensive overview of the graph-structured data structures used within Blink, Chromium's rendering engine, detailing how web content is processed from initial input to final displ...
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blink::PropertyTreeManager
bridges Blink property trees → cc property trees. Given Blink’s Transform/Clip/Effect/Scroll nodes (from paint property trees), this class creates/updates the cc counterparts (cc::TransformNode, cc::C...
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blink::PaintArtifactCompositor
turns chunks into compositor layers & updates cc property trees. Consumes the new PaintArtifact and does the layerization and property‑tree updates required for compositor draw. It supports fast paths...
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blink::PaintChunk and blink::DisplayItemList
grouping and content. PaintChunk: groups sequential display items that share the same property‑tree state and cull/visibility; it’s the unit we layerize and invalidate.DisplayItemList: the recorded Sk...
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blink::PaintArtifact
the immutable “what to draw” package for this frame. A PaintArtifact is the product of Blink painting: a DisplayItemList plus an ordered vector of PaintChunks. It is immutable post‑creation and design...
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blink::PaintController
builds the display list + paint chunks and manages caching. As painters call into GraphicsContext, they also drive a PaintController which groups drawing into display items and paint chunks (each keye...
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blink::GraphicsContext
immediate drawing API that records to a display list. Painters for layout objects use GraphicsContext to “draw”—but in modern Blink those calls get recorded into a display list (PaintRecord) backed by...
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blink::TransformPaintPropertyNode / ClipPaintPropertyNode / EffectPaintPropertyNode / ScrollPaintPropertyNode
These are the nodes within those four trees. Every piece of painted content (a “paint chunk”) is associated with a tuple of (Transform, Clip, Effect, Scroll) nodes—its PropertyTreeState. This precisel...
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