Campos: WebKitGTK+ 2.14

Carlos Garcia Campos takes alook at the latest stable release of WebKitGTK+. "[The threadedcompositor] is the most important change introduced inWebKitGTK+ 2.14 and what kept us busy for most of this release cycle. Theidea is simple, we still render everything in the web process, but theaccelerated compositing (all the OpenGL calls) has been moved to asecondary thread, leaving the main thread free to run all other heavy taskslike layout, JavaScript, etc. The result is a smoother experience ingeneral, since the main thread is no longer busy rendering frames, it canprocess the JavaScript faster improving the responsivenesssignificantly." This release is also considered feature complete inWayland.