Performance compared to flutter_rust_bridge?

[leedstyh]

Any suggest here?

[temeddix]

To clarify, this project uses native ABIs and a separate async runtime(threadpool) just like flutter_rust_bridge. Therefore it is possible to say that the performance is nearly identical. :)

[leedstyh]

Thanks @temeddix , sorry to miss that

[temeddix]

You're welcome. Please feel free to ask!

[travisbikkle]

Hi, I'm new to Flutter and Rust. I'm comparing rinf and flutter_rust_bridge.

In this article written by AppFlowy maintainers, they pointed out that protobuf may be a performance issue when application grows.

I also read that detailed-techniques rinf relies solely on FFI but indeed uses protobuf, so I think there might be an overhead in rinf.

But in this discussion, @temeddix said they are identical.

I'm confused now. What role of protobuf is in rinf? Can I say rinf = flutter_rust_bridge + protobuf?

[temeddix]

The text looks misleading, indeed there are protobuf serialization/deserialization overhead, especially when there's large data.

The 'identical' part would be FFI, when you pass data across language barrier.

Thank you for your participation:)

[travisbikkle]

The text looks misleading, indeed there are protobuf serialization/deserialization overhead, especially when there's large data.

The 'identical' part would be FFI, when you pass data across language barrier.

Thank you for your participation:)

Thanks for the clarification, I understand now.

In just the past hour I compared frb's Mandelbrot example, and rinf's fractal art example.

The impression I get is that frb focuses on a one-way, one-time call to rust from dart (although it indeed can call dart from rust as well) to get the result directly, and rinf tends to keep rust running, and then sends the result via serialization.

rinf builds a solution that can implement all the business logic in rust(I don't know if frb can do this or not), and can even move all the state management of the program into rust via the Actor model. This is something that is perfect for people who don't know how to choose between a bunch of state management libraries like riverpod, bloc,getx, etc. or people who want to do everything in rust, and this is just what I'm looking for for a new project.

Do I understand it correctly?