Re:Blender's UI and Runtime: Much Faster Than GPUI
by hackyhacky on Friday November 06, 2026 @06:52AM
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If only there were some way to determine speed based on observable data. Oh well maybe some day.
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Re:Blender's UI and Runtime: Much Faster Than GPUI
by Matumio on Friday November 06, 2026 @07:06AM
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Re:Blender's UI and Runtime: Much Faster Than GPUI
by dzogchen on Friday November 06, 2026 @08:30AM
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Why the snarky comment? We already have to data points: one person heard it was faster, another person heard it was slower. If more and more people tell what they've heard then we will know the truth. Please go read how science works!
Re:Blender's UI and Runtime: Much Faster Than GPUI
by moi2388 on Friday November 06, 2026 @02:27PM
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Now if only we could peer review our peers’ reviews..
Re:Blender's UI and Runtime: Much Faster Than GPUI
by nicoburns on Friday November 06, 2026 @09:17AM
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Some actual numbers (vibe coded benchmark ported from the JS framework benchmark):
Median update+build time per frame (ms), lower is better
Machine: macOS 26 VM, Apple M4 (virtual)
benchmark (ms) Dioxus Iced egui Slint GPUI
create 1k 12.91 17.57 10.66 26.99 22.32
replace 1k 14.46 14.48 7.48 17.07 17.41
update every 10th 2.12 1.94 4.17 5.55 10.65
select row 1.16 0.37 3.50 6.62 10.68
swap rows 1.45 0.42 3.53 4.10 10.26
remove row 1.32 0.39 3.27 4.46 11.95
create 10k 124.97 152.52 58.97 136.07 164.58
append 1k to 10k 28.12 157.67 33.01 69.93 117.70
clear 1k 3.00 0.86 0.07 4.60 0.04
scroll frame 0.28 0.10 0.55 4.23 3.79
Dioxus above is Dioxus Native.These are CPU-only times for the state management / style / layout / etc, but don't include rasterization (additional work in the benchmark harness required to measure GPU time sensibly).
Re:Blender's UI and Runtime: Much Faster Than GPUI
by nu11ptr on Friday November 06, 2026 @10:51AM
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Did you test gpui_fast? I'm curious how it compares.
Re:Blender's UI and Runtime: Much Faster Than GPUI
by nicoburns on Friday November 06, 2026 @10:53AM
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I did not, but judging from it's README it may well solve most of the issues.
Re:Blender's UI and Runtime: Much Faster Than GPUI
by anthony-eid on Friday November 06, 2026 @07:05PM
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Do you have a repo or something i could run the benchmark locally with please?