require('react-native-svg') takes a long time on low end Android

I’m trying to optimize the launch time of my app and I found react-native-svg to be a bottleneck.

On a low end Nokia 2 running Android 7.1.1 in production mode I recorded the following lengths of time. 1449ms, 1292ms, 1285ms, 1215ms, 1178ms, 1167ms.

In my iphoneXR Simulator on a 2018 macbookpro I get 94ms, 89ms, 71ms, 67ms.

My monitoring code is:

const starttime = Date.now();
const reactNativeSvg = require('react-native-svg');
alert(Date.now() - starttime);

“react-native-svg”: “^6.3.1”, “react-native”: “0.57.3”,

[msand]

v9.0.0 has been released with these changes and various spec conformance fixes included.

[mrousavy]

@msand Hey! With Fabric + TurboModules + JSI coming up “sometime later this year” (hopefully), do you have a full rewrite for a rust implementation planned? I’ve noticed really slow performance when rendering complex SVGs such as react-native-bigheads, even on an iPhone 11 Pro. I don’t want to find out how slow it’s gonna be on a low end Android device.