Blink's Graph Data Structures and Traversals
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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 display. The core of the pipeline relies on sequential graph transformations, beginning with the DOM tree (representing the document structure), which is used to build the Layout Tree (representing visual formatting and geometry). Modern Blink transitions this into the Immutable Fragment Tree, which is key for painting and hit-testing. The subsequent stage involves the Paint Artifact, composed of a display list and four parallel Property Trees (Transform, Clip, Effect, and Scroll), which manage visual state hierarchies. Finally, these artifacts inform the construction of the Compositing Layer Tree on both the main and compositor threads, enabling efficient rendering and animation. Throughout all these stages, the document emphasizes various traversal concepts—such as pre-order, post-order, and finding the common ancestor—that are fundamental to Blink's algorithms for layout, style calculation, and drawing.

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