electron/patches/chromium/disable_compositor_recycling.patch

From 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Andy Locascio <andy@slack-corp.com>
Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2019 12:09:10 -0700
Subject: fix: disabling compositor recycling

Compositor recycling is useful for Chrome because there can be many tabs and spinning up a compositor for each one would be costly. In practice, Chrome uses the parent compositor code path of browser_compositor_view_mac.mm; the NSView of each tab is detached when it's hidden and attached when it's shown. For Electron, there is no parent compositor, so we're forced into the "own compositor" code path, which seems to be non-optimal and pretty ruthless in terms of the release of resources. Electron has no real concept of multiple tabs per window, so it should be okay to disable this ruthless recycling altogether in Electron.

diff --git a/content/browser/renderer_host/render_widget_host_view_mac.mm b/content/browser/renderer_host/render_widget_host_view_mac.mm
index a9b4caaa4da3bee1a22db976a8ec71dc7d5400ed..4dda552f4dc50e6e3a184e95e771b7141e19e736 100644
--- a/content/browser/renderer_host/render_widget_host_view_mac.mm
+++ b/content/browser/renderer_host/render_widget_host_view_mac.mm
@@ -540,7 +540,11 @@
     return;
 
   host()->WasHidden();
-  browser_compositor_->SetRenderWidgetHostIsHidden(true);
+  // Consider the RWHV occluded only if it is not attached to a window
+  // (e.g. unattached BrowserView). Otherwise we treat it as visible to
+  // prevent unnecessary compositor recycling.
+  const bool unattached = ![GetInProcessNSView() window];
+  browser_compositor_->SetRenderWidgetHostIsHidden(unattached);
 }
 
 void RenderWidgetHostViewMac::SetSize(const gfx::Size& size) {