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The fonts we embed in Zed binary (Zed Sans & Zed Mono) weigh about 30Mb in total and we are cloning them several times during startup and loading of embedded assets (once explicitly in Zed and then under the hood in font-kit). Moreover, after loading we have at least 2 copies of each font in our program; one in .rdata and the other on the heap for use by font-kit. This commit does away with that distinction (we're no longer allocating the font data) and slightly relaxes the interface of `TextSystem::add_fonts` by expecting one to pass `Cow<[u8]>` instead of `Arc<Vec<u8>>`. Additionally, `AssetSource::get` now returns `Cow<'static, [u8]>` instead of `Cow<'self, [u8]>`; all existing implementations conform with that change. Note that this optimization takes effect only in Release builds, as the library we use for asset embedding - rust-embed - embeds the assets only in Release mode and in Dev builds it simply loads data from disk. Thus it returns `Cow<[u8]>` in it's interface. Therefore, we still copy that memory around in Dev builds, but that's not really an issue. This patch makes no assumptions about the build profile we're running under, that's just an intrinsic property of rust-embed. Tl;dr: this should shave off about 30Mb of memory usage and a fair chunk (~30ms) of startup time. Release Notes: - Improved startup time and memory usage. |
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Welcome to GPUI!
GPUI is a hybrid immediate and retained mode, GPU accelerated, UI framework for Rust, designed to support a wide variety of applications.
Getting Started
GPUI is still in active development as we work on the Zed code editor and isn't yet on crates.io. You'll also need to use the latest version of stable rust and be on macOS. Add the following to your Cargo.toml:
gpui = { git = "https://github.com/zed-industries/zed" }
Everything in GPUI starts with an App. You can create one with App::new(), and kick off your application by passing a callback to App::run(). Inside this callback, you can create a new window with AppContext::open_window(), and register your first root view. See gpui.rs for a complete example.
The Big Picture
GPUI offers three different registers depending on your needs:
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State management and communication with Models. Whenever you need to store application state that communicates between different parts of your application, you'll want to use GPUI's models. Models are owned by GPUI and are only accessible through an owned smart pointer similar to an
Rc. See theapp::model_contextmodule for more information. -
High level, declarative UI with Views. All UI in GPUI starts with a View. A view is simply a model that can be rendered, via the
Rendertrait. At the start of each frame, GPUI will call this render method on the root view of a given window. Views build a tree ofelements, lay them out and style them with a tailwind-style API, and then give them to GPUI to turn into pixels. See thedivelement for an all purpose swiss-army knife of rendering. -
Low level, imperative UI with Elements. Elements are the building blocks of UI in GPUI, and they provide a nice wrapper around an imperative API that provides as much flexibility and control as you need. Elements have total control over how they and their child elements are rendered and and can be used for making efficient views into large lists, implement custom layouting for a code editor, and anything else you can think of. See the
elementmodule for more information.
Each of these registers has one or more corresponding contexts that can be accessed from all GPUI services. This context is your main interface to GPUI, and is used extensively throughout the framework.
Other Resources
In addition to the systems above, GPUI provides a range of smaller services that are useful for building complex applications:
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Actions are user-defined structs that are used for converting keystrokes into logical operations in your UI. Use this for implementing keyboard shortcuts, such as cmd-q. See the
actionmodule for more information. -
Platform services, such as
quit the apporopen a URLare available as methods on theapp::AppContext. -
An async executor that is integrated with the platform's event loop. See the
executormodule for more information., -
The
[gpui::test]macro provides a convenient way to write tests for your GPUI applications. Tests also have their own kind of context, aTestAppContextwhich provides ways of simulating common platform input. Seeapp::test_contextandtestmodules for more details.
Currently, the best way to learn about these APIs is to read the Zed source code, ask us about it at a fireside hack, or drop a question in the Zed Discord. We're working on improving the documentation, creating more examples, and will be publishing more guides to GPUI on our blog.