Chrome Compositor: Raster-Inducing Scrolling Explained
Blink2868 Nov 2025

Chrome Compositor: Raster-Inducing Scrolling Explained

The source provides an extensive technical explanation of raster-inducing scrolling within the Chrome browser's rendering pipeline, focusing on the sophisticated architecture of the Chrome Compositor (cc). It details how smooth, asynchronous scrolling is achieved by isolating visual updates to the compositor thread, minimizing costly content redraws (rasterization) on the slower main thread. The text identifies scenarios where scrolling forces raster work, such as when content is exposed, or when visual features like subpixel text require re-rendering for correctness, leading to either performance jank or visible checkerboarding. Finally, the document covers the historical evolution of Chrome's multi-threaded rendering, modern mitigation strategies like tile prioritization, and techniques developers use to debug scroll performance issues.

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Chromium Viewport Scroll and Transform Hierarchy

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These sources provide an extensive guide on executing a complete interactive Git rebase workflow entirely within the Neovim text editor. The process heavily relies on the vim-fugitive plugin for Git c...

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The source provides a comprehensive guide to the Chromium development workflow, focusing on using Gerrit for code review and the command-line utility git cl (part of depot_tools). It details two prima...

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FragmentPaintPropertyTreeBuilder::UpdateScrollAndScrollTranslation()

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