rust-windowing / rust-windowing/winit

Profile and benchmark performance of winit event handling

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Description

Over at Bevy, we're seeing some non-trivial hiccups based on how many inputs must be handled: https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/issues/4691

To the extent possible, it would be good to profile and optimize the event handling done by winit.

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Research direction

Start by reviewing the linked Bevy issue and profiling winit's event handling under the input load described there. Record a baseline and identify a measurable optimization target; done means a documented benchmark or profile and an agreed improvement, with regression coverage where applicable.

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Assessment

Tech stack
rust
Domain
desktop, performance
Issue type
Refactor
Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Needs clarification
Newbie friendliness
25/100

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