Bug 219751
Summary: | Efficient low frequency animations | ||
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Product: | WebKit | Reporter: | Jake Archibald <jaffathecake> |
Component: | Animations | Assignee: | Nobody <webkit-unassigned> |
Status: | NEW | ||
Severity: | Normal | CC: | dino, graouts, jer.noble, simon.fraser, webkit-bug-importer, ysuzuki |
Priority: | P2 | Keywords: | InRadar |
Version: | Safari Technology Preview | ||
Hardware: | Unspecified | ||
OS: | Unspecified |
Jake Archibald
I did some research on how efficient browsers are at animations where not-a-lot happens.
https://static-misc-2.glitch.me/low-freq-anims/
I played with the above while monitoring the task manager.
The "High frequency animation" shows how much CPU is used on a 60hz (or whatever display frequency) animation.
"setTimeout" shows how much CPU is used for a setTimeout-driven animation that updates every 5 seconds. This uses almost no CPU.
The rest are CSS/web animations that update infrequently.
I'm _really_ impressed with how Safari handles these cases, but there are some opportunities for optimisation.
In the following tests:
- Discrete values
- Mostly same values
- Empty animation
…Safari seems to use more CPU than necessary, as if it's running a 60hz timer internally.
Related Chrome issue: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=1157483
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Simon Fraser (smfr)
Thanks for the info.
Our long-term objective is web-exposed API that allows devs to express what frame rate their animation needs.
Jake Archibald
Yeah, I think we need that too. I made some notes here https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/5025 - seems important to allow multiple animations to exist on the same reduced frame rate timeline. I know you've thought about this more than me though, any API ideas?
However, I think the unoptimised cases in this test are still worth fixing.
Discrete - although a fixed frame rate would work here, it's already expressed in the animation keyframes.
Mostly same values - this can't be fixed by a reduced frame rate. I've used this style of animation for a "recording" indicator. Like, a red circle that briefly fades from opacity 0.6 to 1, then back to 0.6, then stays at 0.6 for a few seconds. The fading should be high frequency, but the browser shouldn't run a high frequency timer while values aren't changing.
Empty animation - this is an alternative to setTimeout but works with the document timeline timer, and doesn't tick when the document is hidden. I guess you could define this as a 0fps animation? But again this can be inferred.
Radar WebKit Bug Importer
<rdar://problem/72366315>
Antoine Quint
I had actually already planned to deal with discrete values, I'm still in the middle of implementing some remaining CSS properties for discrete animations.
Mostly same values… that'll require a bit more thinking.
Empty animations: that one's easy and I'll file a dedicated bug for this.
Note that for steps() we have dedicated logic already.