viz stands for what?

[ALeft AWant]

Hi, I just noticed that there is a new component named viz, it is at here: https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src.git/+/master/components/viz//

Do you known viz means what? Thanks!

[PhistucK]

You can find out by going through the first commits in the log, for example -

https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src.git/+/3cf0cf68b3930de4aaac19a00ed8b8f0fd0e6ee3

☆PhistucK

On Fri, Jul 7, 2017 at 7:43 AM, ALeft AWant <want...@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi, I just noticed that there is a new component named viz, it is at here: https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src.git/+/master/components/viz//

Do you known viz means what? Thanks!

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[Kyle Charbonneau]

It stands for visuals. One of our big goals is combining the existing gpu code plus existing compositing and hit testing code into a single service. None of "gpu", "compositor", "cc", etc. really captures the full scope of the new service so we picked a new name based on what it will handle.