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perf(web): long-thread timeline rebuilds 45 → 9 ms, tool updates 12 → 0.3 ms#26727

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On a real 15.7K-item thread: timeline rebuilds go from 45 ms to 8.6 ms (5×), and a tool update goes from 12.2 ms to 0.28 ms (40×).

BeforeAfterOutput
Full timeline rebuild (deriveMessagesTimelineRows)45.0 ms8.6 msidentical
Timeline entries update when one tool completes12.2 ms0.28 ms (10,335 of 10,336 entries reused)identical
Model picker check on keydown, per call~10 µs~0n/a

Measured in a dev build with the full history of a real thread loaded (10,336 timeline entries, 186 collapsed turns). Both versions ran on the same captured inputs in the same page.

Problem

A DevTools trace of typing in the desktop composer, while an agent ran tools in a long thread, showed six 100–140 ms main-thread freezes. Each followed a WebSocket update and rebuilt the whole chat timeline. A second trace showed the same rebuild costing 234 ms and 272 ms when switching into long threads. Keystrokes also paid for full-document querySelector calls.

Hot spot in the production traceCost
Turn-fold deferredWorkItemIds scan286 ms (~48 ms per update)
deriveTimelineEntriesFromVisibleTurnItems full rebuild153 ms (~25 ms per update)
isModelPickerOpen() querySelector on keydown117 ms (~0.6 ms per keystroke)

Fixes

  • Turn folds collected deferred work items by scanning every timeline entry once per fold, which costs folds × entries. Each fold now looks up its own entries through an id→entry map built once per rebuild.
  • Timeline entries: the incremental path handled appended items and streaming text only. Any other item change, such as a tool going running → completed, rebuilt every entry. A changed tool or work item now re-derives just its own entry in place, and the other entries keep their identity. Messages and question answers still rebuild, because they take part in de-duplication across entries.
  • Model picker check: isModelPickerOpen() searched the whole document, once per shortcut scope, on every keydown. ModelPickerContent now registers its mount in a layout effect, and the check reads that count.

Verification

  • New case in session-logic.test.ts: a running tool completes and only its entry is re-derived. It fails on main.
  • Existing deferredWorkItemIds coverage guards the fold change.
  • vp run check:changed passes.

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The change updates incremental timeline derivation for eligible changed items, resolves deferred work IDs through a timeline-entry lookup, and tracks model-picker mounts through registration and cleanup.

Changes: Incremental timeline updates

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Re-derive changed timeline items
apps/web/src/session-logic.ts, apps/web/src/session-logic.test.ts		Eligible changed non-message items are re-derived during incremental reuse. The code checks that re-derived entries match existing entries. Tests check equivalence with full derivation and preservation of unchanged entry identities.
Resolve fold members by ID
apps/web/src/components/chat/MessagesTimeline.logic.ts		Deferred work item IDs are collected by looking up each turn-fold entry ID. Existing work-entry, deferred-work, and superseded-fold filters remain.

Model-picker mount tracking

Layer / File(s)Summary
Register model-picker mounts
apps/web/src/modelPickerVisibility.ts, apps/web/src/components/chat/ModelPickerContent.tsx		The picker registers its mount during layout-effect setup and uses the returned callback for cleanup. isModelPickerOpen checks the registered mount count.

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Change: Refactor

Possibly related issues

  • Issue 24120: The incremental reuse change re-derives eligible changed timeline items without requiring full timeline derivation. The issue’s proposed text-only fast path is not confirmed by the supplied changes.

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8- Around line 924-929: Update reuseTimelineEntries so changed rows reuse shared
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apps/web/src/session-logic.tslines 924–929Outdated · f5f8af6Resolved by Julius Marminge
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