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by lenkite 1530 days ago
> Flutter on the other hand performs reasonably well (generally speaking) even if you outsource the engineering to the lowest bidder in Eastern Europe or South Asia.

Discussion on Flutter Performance at r/cpp is enlightening: https://www.reddit.com/r/cpp/comments/u0ut2a/comment/i4b0lqt...

> "Unfortunately, Flutter is currently a pile of hot garbage from the performance PoV.

> Their own Hello World example, which has one animated button on screen, which updates the label when you press it (see their screenshot) in Release manages to stutter on Moto G7 Power, a phone from 2019. Which smoothly runs quite demanding 3D games.

> According to Android Studio's profiler, about 20% of the frames do not fit into the time slot when the button is pressed. I don't know how did they manage to achieve this with such a trivial example on a Snapdragon 632, but they did it. So, to run smoothly on not-latest phones, your app should somehow be even simpler than their Hello World example, which seems hard to do.

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Unfortunately I didn't find it enlightening. It's just another anecdote. More likely a confirmation bias.

I am not a smartphone dev. So I don't care either way. But I want to see a proper benchmarking. Not another internet hot take.