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Compose Text Widgets Are Much Lighter Than TextView

I was trying to get going on a label where we jettison all the super complicated stuff in TextView and just do the thing that most people, 98% of the time, all I want to do is display a string. The compose text widgets almost inside out compared to TextView because TextView for optimization reasons, internally, you mentioned static layout earlier,. We have other types of layout, this boring layout and dynamic layout.

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