van2z comments on What popular crates are available to build GUIs with widgets WITHOUT GPU?

submitted 3 years ago by van2z@programming.dev to c/rust@programming.dev

For some reason, it seems popular for GUI crates to use the GPU. I just want to make simple widgets, for like a calculator.

No fancy graphics. I want it quite lightweight.

For some reason, popular GUI crates love to do everything through a GPU, which bumps up the memory / cpu use significantly.

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[–] van2z@programming.dev [S] 13 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (1 child)

OMG, thank you! I have been using Iced. My simple application's RAM just went down from 80 MB to only 4 MB.

The executable size went down from about 8 MB to 2.5 MB

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[–] hch12907@programming.dev 3 points 3 years ago (1 child)

8MB to 2.5MB is a huge drop. I wonder what caused the bloat - a crate?

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[–] Lmaydev@programming.dev 7 points 3 years ago (1 child)

Most likely the GPU one

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[–] hch12907@programming.dev 2 points 3 years ago

Obviously.

I mean the specific crate that caused the bloat.

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