HN – Rpi – a Rust rewrite of the Pi agent, 10× faster startup

I've been learning about the Pi agent and decided to rewrite it in Rust. Now that I've finished a lot of the work, I'd like to show how much faster Rust (rpi) is than TypeScript (Pi). Here are the results:

| Metric | rpi (Rust) | Pi (TypeScript) | Difference | |:---|:---|:---|:---| | `--version` | 17.5 ms | 169.5 ms | 9.7× faster | | Cold start | 17.7 ms | 189.5 ms | 10.7× faster | | RSS when ready | 12.0 MiB | 91.5 MiB | 7.6× smaller | | Install size | 21.8 MiB | ~385 MiB | ~18× smaller |

Rust is really cool!

Rpi – a Rust rewrite of the Pi agent, 10× faster startup

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