Could someone explain to naive me the purpose or benefit of porting SD to Rust? I do use SD quite regularly the 'normal' way via Automatic1111. I just haven't p

Could someone explain to naive me the purpose or benefit of porting SD to Rust? I do use SD quite regularly the 'normal' way via Automatic1111. I just haven't paid attention to the model itself. Is this meant to be an equivalent of llama.cpp so it can run on smaller hardware?