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This way, we still perform UTF-8 validation, but don't go through the slow generic code path that rebuilds the decoded string one code point at a time. This was a bottleneck when loading a canned copy of reddit.com, which ended up being ~120 MiB large. - Time spent decoding UTF-8 before this change: 1192 ms - Time spent decoding UTF-8 after this change: 154 ms That's still a long time, but 7.7x faster is nothing to sneeze at! :^) Note that if the input fails UTF-8 validation, we still fall back to the slow path and insert replacement characters per the WHATWG Encoding spec: https://encoding.spec.whatwg.org/#utf-8-decode
Ladybird
Ladybird is a truly independent web browser, using a novel engine based on web standards.
Important
Ladybird is in a pre-alpha state, and only suitable for use by developers
Features
We aim to build a complete, usable browser for the modern web.
Ladybird uses a multi-process architecture with a main UI process, several WebContent renderer processes, an ImageDecoder process, and a RequestServer process.
Image decoding and network connections are done out of process to be more robust against malicious content. Each tab has its own renderer process, which is sandboxed from the rest of the system.
At the moment, many core library support components are inherited from SerenityOS:
- LibWeb: Web rendering engine
- LibJS: JavaScript engine
- LibWasm: WebAssembly implementation
- LibCrypto/LibTLS: Cryptography primitives and Transport Layer Security
- LibHTTP: HTTP/1.1 client
- LibGfx: 2D Graphics Library, Image Decoding and Rendering
- LibArchive: Archive file format support
- LibUnicode: Unicode and locale support
- LibAudio, LibMedia: Audio and video playback
- LibCore: Event loop, OS abstraction layer
- LibIPC: Inter-process communication
How do I build and run this?
See build instructions for information on how to build Ladybird.
Ladybird runs on Linux, macOS, Windows (with WSL2), and many other *Nixes.
How do I read the documentation?
Code-related documentation can be found in the documentation folder.
Get in touch and participate!
Join our Discord server to participate in development discussion.
Before opening an issue, please see the issue policy.
A general guide for contributing can be found in CONTRIBUTING.md.
License
Ladybird is licensed under a 2-clause BSD license.