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[Impeller] Add a note about Graphite to the FAQ. #54623

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Action item from go/impeller-faq-followups.

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LGTM

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Improvements are being made in Graphite to allow for easier pre-compilation of
shaders at startup time. But, since it is still aims to support Skia’s general
2D API and has the same spec. requirements, the inherent issues that make full
offline shader compilation possible still exist.
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This needs some wordsmithing. E.g. around "But, since it is still aims ..."

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You're right. That sentence was a mess. I reworded it. Another look?

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(e.g Metal, Vulkan, Dawn). It aims to reduce the CPU cost of recording commands
while taking advantage of newer GPU features.

Improvements are being made in Graphite to allow for easier pre-compilation of
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this paragraph would get out of date, right?

Perhaps a phrasing here is "One of the goals of Graphite is to allow for easier pre-compilation of shaders at startup time." ? WDYT?

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Done. PTAL.

same spec. requirements. The design decisions made to support those requirements
make offline shader compilation impossible.

Right now, Flutter has no plans to use Graphite. However, we, the Flutter team,
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"As of August 2024, Flutter has ..."

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Done.

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LGTM with small tweak. Thank you!

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2024-08-19 kevmoo@users.noreply.github.com web_ui: bump min Dart SDK to 3.6.0-0 (flutter/engine#54626)
2024-08-19 chinmaygarde@google.com [Impeller] Add a note about Graphite to the FAQ. (flutter/engine#54623)
2024-08-19 jacksongardner@google.com [skwasm] Fix skwasm clip coverage algorithm. (flutter/engine#54572)
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flutter/engine@9d7e3a6...7dd71ff

2024-08-19 kevmoo@users.noreply.github.com web_ui: bump min Dart SDK to 3.6.0-0 (flutter/engine#54626)
2024-08-19 chinmaygarde@google.com [Impeller] Add a note about Graphite to the FAQ. (flutter/engine#54623)
2024-08-19 jacksongardner@google.com [skwasm] Fix skwasm clip coverage algorithm. (flutter/engine#54572)
2024-08-19 skia-flutter-autoroll@skia.org Roll Skia from 318b7958f748 to b6224c9e6611 (2 revisions) (flutter/engine#54625)

If this roll has caused a breakage, revert this CL and stop the roller
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is aware of the problem.

To file a bug in Flutter: https://github.com/flutter/flutter/issues/new/choose

To report a problem with the AutoRoller itself, please file a bug:
https://issues.skia.org/issues/new?component=1389291&template=1850622

Documentation for the AutoRoller is here:
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