Cost-Aware Rendering: Making Frontends Budget Themselves
Rendering choices have a cost profile. Frontends should understand when to spend CPU, network, cache, and edge compute.
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Rendering choices have a cost profile. Frontends should understand when to spend CPU, network, cache, and edge compute.
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