Wayland: How to run EGUI with minimal memory footprint? Custom rendering with Smithay?

[Ciantic]

I'm using Wayland.

When I start even the hello world example with cargo run --release it takes 271MB of memory.

My target UI is just two text boxes and 5 labels, and the UI is only shown occasionally (project timing). I was able to run EGUI with 100MB of memory (by rendering only labels and textboxes), but that is still not very good in my opinion for this usecase.

It's notable that Smithay Wayland toolkit has example Wayland window that renders colorful gradient (and it can also animate) it uses 2MB of memory, and 4MB when animated.

Could I use EGUI for purely rendering, Smithay toolkit for other things somehow?

[Ciantic]

I noticed others have used EGUI with winit, that is something to be tried.