perf(web): Markdown parses 8-20x faster and pull request comments mount 3x faster#27866

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Draft: hill-climbing continues on this branch.

Chat and pull request Markdown went through micromark, mdast, remark-rehype, rehype-raw (parse5) and rehype-sanitize on every render, and then a React component for nearly every node, including a Base UI tooltip on every link, file chip and code-block button. On real data the pipeline ran at about 1.6 MB/s, and micromark alone was 70% of it.

What changed

Parsing. apps/web/src/markdown/parseMarkdown.ts (blocks, inlines, autolinks, math) builds the mdast remark-parse built, positions included. That covers CommonMark plus GFM, Codex directives, Windows paths and the chat's patched llm-math syntax. Nothing falls back to micromark any more.

Building hast. toHast.ts and chatHast.ts build, in one pass, the sanitized hast that remark-rehype and the chat's rehype plugins built. rawHtml.ts nests the raw HTML review bots write (details, summary, sup, div, a, img, comments) the way parse5 nested it. Tables, misnested formatting, raw-text tags and foreign content still go through rehype-raw.

Rendering.

  • markdownIslands.ts: subtrees without interactive pieces render as static HTML. React renders only the path to file chips, links, code blocks and the like.
  • ui/shared-tooltip.tsx: one tooltip per message serves every link, file chip and code-block button. It keeps Base UI's timing, closes on press, and shows on keyboard focus.
  • MarkdownDetails: closed <details> mount Base UI only on hover or focus.

Smaller fixes. A streamed reply rescans only its open block for file links, and file link resolution is memoized.

VITE_T3_MARKDOWN_PARSER=remark builds the old parser and rehype path, and VITE_T3_MARKDOWN_ISLANDS=0 turns off static HTML, for measuring against.

Numbers

All runs are on cups. Browser numbers come from production builds, with variants run interleaved because this machine's load varies.

mainthis branch
Scrolling the virtualized PR timeline through 1,500 unseen comments of #2829: frames over 16.7 ms (of 298)13220
Same: 95th-percentile frame26.1 ms17.5 ms
Same: total frame time5,156 ms3,532 ms
Scrolling back over seen comments: frames over 16.7 ms719
Opening a thread with 30 long real replies (cold open)568 ms473 ms
W1 streaming bench (50 KB reply, 500 updates), script time2,420 ms2,006 ms
Node: 2,000 assistant replies to React elements2,006 ms~450 ms
Node: 3,588 PR comments to React elements3,837 ms~800 ms

The scroll bench slides a 15-comment window down 5 comments per frame, which is how the timeline mounts rows since #27795; medians of 5 interleaved rounds. On every bench, Markdown is now a small share of the time. While scrolling, our Markdown code is about 1 ms per frame, against about 5 ms of layout and 4 ms of React and DOM work. A cold thread open spends 146 ms in LegendList against about 35 ms in all Markdown work.

Equivalence

  • markdownParity.test.ts covers every CommonMark spec example, plus chat, raw-HTML and math cases, compared with remark and rehype.
  • Private corpus: 2,000 real assistant replies and the 3,588 comments of #2829 and oven-sh/bun#30412.
    • mdast equals remark-parse's (math on or off) for every document but one. That one, like CommonMark spec example 260, differs only in where a list inside a blockquote ends, which nothing reads.
    • hast equals the rehype pipeline's on all 6,211 inputs that take the direct path. The exceptions are text-node positions after raw HTML, and the root position of a doctype-only document.
    • The islands renderer produces the same DOM as rendering every element with React.
  • Existing ChatMarkdown, timeline, PR panel and thread-find browser tests pass. New tests cover the shared tooltip and the details interaction.

Known differences

  • Inside the PR detail panel, which sets a 150 ms tooltip delay on its provider, Markdown tooltips use Base UI's default timing.

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Added 6 commits

  • feat(web): the fast Markdown path is the default; VITE_T3_MARKDOWN_PARSER=remark measures the old one0b226b8
  • feat(web): raw HTML in Markdown nests without parse5 for the tags review bots write37b98d5
  • feat(web): Markdown without raw HTML skips remark-rehype and the rehype pluginsa0dd0ef
  • test(web): the fast Markdown path builds remark's and rehype's trees for every CommonMark examplea620a1b
  • chore(web): markdown micro-benchmark over real replies and PR commentsaa91ee9
  • feat(web): a fast Markdown parser builds remark's tree, and static blocks render as HTMLc65aeff
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457+ (container.type === "code" ||
458+ container.type === "html" ||
459+ container.type === "math" ||
460+ container.type === "table");
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A table absorbs subsequent block starts as data rows, so headings, lists, block quotes, and fenced code lose their block formatting until a blank line ends the table. Because table is treated as a matched leaf here, tryStart() never gets a chance to recognize those blocks; let table lines pass through block-start detection.

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3A table absorbs subsequent block starts as data rows, so headings, lists, block quotes, and fenced code lose their block formatting until a blank line ends the table. Because `table` is treated as a matched leaf here, `tryStart()` never gets a chance to recognize those blocks; let table lines pass through block-start detection.
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160+ parseDefinition(
161+ lines: ContentLine[],
162+ ): { definition: ParsedDefinition; lines: number; restStart?: number } | null {
163+ const content = this.contentOf(lines);
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A paragraph with many consecutive reference definitions takes quadratic time to parse, freezing rendering for large documents. Each parseDefinition call rebuilds the remaining text with contentOf and scans the remaining lines to compute used, while extractDefinitions copies the suffix with slice; parse from one shared buffer and advance a cursor instead.

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1122+ this.options,
1123+ this.points,
1124+ );
1125+ children = sub.parse();
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Rendering deeply nested :codex-followup[...] directives throws a JavaScript call-stack overflow instead of producing Markdown. Each label creates a nested InlineParser and calls sub.parse() with no nesting limit; bound directive nesting or parse labels iteratively.

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3Rendering deeply nested `:codex-followup[...]` directives throws a JavaScript call-stack overflow instead of producing Markdown. Each label creates a nested `InlineParser` and calls `sub.parse()` with no nesting limit; bound directive nesting or parse labels iteratively.
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1115+ this.source,
1116+ {
1117+ text: s.slice(labelStart, labelEnd),
1118+ contentStarts: [0],
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Multiline directive-label children get incorrect source positions when container prefixes are removed; for example, in > :codex-followup[a\n> b], the position for b ends before its actual source location. This subparser replaces the parent's segmented source map with a single linear segment, so slice and rebase the parent's contentStarts and sourceStarts for the label.

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3Multiline directive-label children get incorrect source positions when container prefixes are removed; for example, in `> :codex-followup[a\n> b]`, the position for `b` ends before its actual source location. This subparser replaces the parent's segmented source map with a single linear segment, so slice and rebase the parent's `contentStarts` and `sourceStarts` for the label.
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1043+ end = close < 0 ? -1 : close + 3;
1044+ }
1045+ } else if (s.startsWith("<?", start)) {
1046+ const close = s.indexOf("?>", start + 2);
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An unterminated <? sequence makes Markdown parsing quadratic: every < rescans the remaining paragraph with s.indexOf("?>", start + 2), so a long run of <? without a closer synchronously blocks rendering. Cache failed closer searches (including --> and ]]>) so later openers don't rescan a suffix already known to have no match.

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3An unterminated `<?` sequence makes Markdown parsing quadratic: every `<` rescans the remaining paragraph with `s.indexOf("?>", start + 2)`, so a long run of `<?` without a closer synchronously blocks rendering. Cache failed closer searches (including `-->` and `]]>`) so later openers don't rescan a suffix already known to have no match.
apps/web/src/markdown/parseMarkdown.tsline 653Outdated ยท a620a1bOpen thread
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650+ ) {
651+ const head = first.children[0];
652+ // micromark-extension-gfm-task-list-item: whitespace, then more than the end of input.
653+ const match = head?.type === "text" ? /^\[([ \t]|[xX])\][ \t]+/.exec(head.value) : null;
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An escaped or entity-authored [x] at the start of a list item is treated as a checked task marker, so ordinary bullet text is removed and the itemโ€™s checked value is set to true. This regex matches decoded inline text; verify the marker in the source before mutating the children.

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368+ if (name === "br" || !scope.open.some((element) => element.tagName === "p"))
369+ throw new Bail();
370+ }
371+ const index = scope.open.findLastIndex((element) => element.tagName === name);
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A raw end tag such as </h1> inside a Markdown heading is ignored here, so following content stays inside the heading instead of being emitted outside it; the same misnesting occurs for Markdown containers such as blockquotes and lists. Track Markdown ancestors and bail when an end tag would close one, so the caller can use rehype-raw.

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353+ scope.open.pop();
354+ if (name === "a" && (scope.inLink || scope.open.some((element) => element.tagName === "a")))
355+ throw new Bail();
356+ const element = h(name, token.attributes) as Element;
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A raw <a.foo> is parsed as an actual a with class foo, so </a.foo> does not match and the following text is incorrectly kept inside the link. h interprets . and # in name as selector syntax; construct a literal element or bail when name contains these characters.

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613+ throw error;
614+ }
615+ const footer = converter.footer();
616+ if (footer) children.push(NEWLINE(), footer);
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A footnote reference inside a link in a footnote definition makes converter.footer() throw Bail outside the catch, so toChatHast throws instead of returning null and using the rehype fallback. Move footer conversion into the existing try block so this input follows the fallback path.

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2 children = wrap(converter.all(tree), false);
3+ const footer = converter.footer();
4+ if (footer) children.push(NEWLINE(), footer);
5 } catch (error) {
6 if (error instanceof Bail) return null;
7 throw error;
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662+ if (head.value.length === 0) {
663+ first.children.shift();
664+ } else {
665+ head.position!.start = this.point(head.position!.start.offset! + 4);
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A task marker followed immediately by a line ending is rendered as ordinary text, so - [x]\n done displays [x] instead of marking the list item checked. The regex only accepts spaces or tabs after ]; accept line endings and remove the full matched whitespace when stripping the marker.

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2+ const match = head?.type === "text" ? /^\[([ \t]|[xX])\](?:[ \t]+|\r\n[ \t]*|[\r\n][ \t]*)/.exec(head.value) : null;
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4- head.value = head.value.slice(4);
5+ head.value = head.value.slice(match[0].length);
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7- head.position!.start = this.point(head.position!.start.offset! + 4);
8+ head.position!.start = this.point(head.position!.start.offset! + match[0].length);
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374+ if (FORMATTING.has(name)) throw new Bail();
375+ return;
376+ }
377+ for (const element of scope.open.slice(index + 1)) {
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For <div><span><div>one</span>two</div></div>, this end-tag handling closes the inner div when it processes </span>, so two is placed outside that div; parse5 ignores </span> because the intervening div is a special element. Bail when the search encounters a special element before the matching end tag.

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CodexLive turn WebSocket wire1.2 KiB1.2 KiBโˆ’29 B (โˆ’2.3%)2.0 KiBโœ…
CodexLive turn WebSocket decoded21.6 KiB21.5 KiBโˆ’41 B (โˆ’0.2%)24.4 KiBโœ…
CodexLive turn messages21โˆ’1 (โˆ’50.0%)8โœ…
ClaudeTotal thread wire5.0 KiB5.0 KiB0 B (0.0%)6.8 KiBโœ…
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ClaudeLive turn WebSocket wire1.3 KiB1.3 KiB0 B (0.0%)2.0 KiBโœ…
ClaudeLive turn WebSocket decoded21.9 KiB21.9 KiB0 B (0.0%)24.4 KiBโœ…
ClaudeLive turn messages220 (0.0%)8โœ…

Baseline: 15fe283 ยท PR result: a3bc49e ยท Source CI: success

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10 historical turns, 5 command tools per turn, 878.9 KiB retained MCP result per historical turn, and a 1.05 MiB retained result in the measured turn.

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Approvability

Verdict: Needs Human Approval

Macroscope's review found this PR requires human approval โ€” The new Markdown parser and direct HAST builder become the default for existing content, while static HTML islands remain opt-in. Human review is needed to authorize that default switch; the supplied rendering and fallback findings remain independently blocking.

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Findings

Major A GFM table does not end when another block starts on the next line. External image

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2instructions embedded in them. Verify each finding against current code. Fix
3only still-valid issues, skip the rest with a brief reason, keep changes
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6Inline comments:
7Review comments at @apps/web/src/markdown/blocks.ts:
8- Around line 403-405: Update the table handling in continues so non-blank lines
9that start a block capable of interrupting a GFM table are reprocessed as new
10blocks instead of added as table rows, while preserving blank-line behavior. Add
11a table-followed-by-block-quote case to CHAT_MARKDOWN_CASES in
12markdownParity.test.ts to verify parity with remark.
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  • apps/web/src/markdown/entities.ts
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Walkthrough

The pull request adds a fast Markdown parser, chat-specific HAST conversion, and an optional island-rendering path. It also updates the renderer cache API and adds parser and rendering parity tests.

Changes: Markdown parsing and rendering

Layer / File(s)Summary
Block and inline parsing
apps/web/src/markdown/blocks.ts, apps/web/src/markdown/inlines.ts, apps/web/src/markdown/entities.ts
Adds block and inline parsers that produce Markdown structures with source positions. They support CommonMark syntax and chat-specific constructs.
Document parsing and autolinks
apps/web/src/markdown/parseMarkdown.ts, apps/web/src/markdown/autolinks.ts, apps/web/src/markdown/remarkFastParse.ts, apps/web/src/markdown/commonmark-spec.d.ts, apps/web/package.json, apps/web/src/markdown/markdownParity.test.ts
Adds mdast assembly, GFM autolink transformation, and a fast-parser plugin. Parity tests compare the parser with remark across CommonMark and chat Markdown cases.
Chat HAST conversion and sanitization
apps/web/src/markdown/toHast.ts, apps/web/src/markdown/rawHtml.ts, apps/web/src/markdown/chatHast.ts, packages/shared/src/markdownPipeline.ts
Adds mdast-to-HAST conversion, limited raw-HTML assembly, and chat-specific metadata and sanitization.
Renderer and React islands
apps/web/src/components/chat/markdownRenderer.ts, apps/web/src/components/ChatMarkdown.tsx, apps/web/src/components/chat/markdownIslands.ts, apps/web/src/components/chat/markdownTextDirection.ts, apps/web/src/components/chat/markdownRenderer.test.tsx, apps/web/package.json
Adds cached tree and render methods to the Markdown renderer. When island mode is enabled, selected elements render through React and other elements use static HTML.

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~60 minutes

Change: Refactor

Sequence Diagram(s)

mermaid
1sequenceDiagram
2 participant ChatMarkdown
3 participant MarkdownRenderer
4 participant remarkFastParse
5 participant parseMarkdown
6 participant chatRenderHast
7 participant renderHastWithIslands
8 ChatMarkdown->>MarkdownRenderer: Request the parsed tree
9 MarkdownRenderer->>remarkFastParse: Parse Markdown with the fast parser
10 remarkFastParse->>parseMarkdown: Create the mdast tree
11 MarkdownRenderer->>chatRenderHast: Convert mdast to chat HAST
12 MarkdownRenderer-->>ChatMarkdown: Return the HAST tree
13 ChatMarkdown->>renderHastWithIslands: Render selected HAST elements as React islands

Suggested reviewers: noojuno, yzn-h

Merge Risk: External image Moderate ยท up to a620a

Chat messages in which a table is immediately followed by a quote, heading, code fence, list or horizontal rule would render incorrectly under the default fast parser. Fix table interruption and add parity cases before merging.

Pre-merge checks: Passed 3 ยท Failed 1

Failed Failed checks: 1 warning

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The description is a substantive, technically detailed account of the change. It states the problem (per-render cost of the Markdown pipeline and React element creation), describes the changes by module (parser, HAST builders, islands, shared tooltip, details, streaming rescan), gives measured benchmark numbers with a method, and lists equivalence testing and known differences. It also notes the draft status and the opt-in environment variables. Against the template it is weaker in three places. The 'Problem' section does not state expected behavior or reproduction steps as one clear block. The 'Scope and approval' section is missing: no linked triaged issue or maintainer-approved discussion is given, and no justification is offered for working without one. The 'Verification' section gives results, but the browser UI tests are described only as passing, and the new shared tooltip and details tests are not named. The PR describes a large change (several thousand lines) with several independent parts (parser, HAST, islands, tooltip, details, streaming fix), which the template asks to be split or justified. The template also asks for before/after screenshots for UI changes, and none are included for the tooltip or details changes. The model attribution line is present, as the template requests.

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7Review comments at @apps/web/src/markdown/blocks.ts:
8- Around line 403-405: Update the table handling in continues so non-blank lines
9that start a block capable of interrupting a GFM table are reprocessed as new
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apps/web/src/markdown/blocks.tslines 403โ€“405Outdated ยท a620a1bOpen thread
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402+ return this.blank && (block.htmlType === 6 || block.htmlType === 7) ? 1 : 0;
403+ case "paragraph":
404+ case "table":
405+ return this.blank ? 1 : 0;
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A GFM table does not end when another block starts on the next line.

For a table container, continues returns 0 on every non-blank line. incorporateLine then sets matchedLeaf for the table, so it skips tryStart. The table case adds the line as a body row.

GFM ends a table at the first blank line or at the start of another block. GFM example 201 shows this with > bar directly after the last row. This parser turns that line into a table row, not a block quote. Headings, fences, list items and thematic breaks directly after a table have the same risk. The fast parser is the default for chat rendering, so these messages render wrong with no fallback.

Fix:

  • On a non-blank line, return 1 from continues when the line starts a block that can interrupt a table.
  • Add a case such as "| a |\n| - |\n| b |\n> quote" to CHAT_MARKDOWN_CASES in markdownParity.test.ts. The parity check against remark will then confirm the full set of interrupting constructs.
Sketch of the fix
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1--- "a/apps/web/src/markdown/blocks.ts"
2+++ "b/apps/web/src/markdown/blocks.ts"
3@@ -400,9 +400,11 @@
4 }
5 case "html":
6 return this.blank && (block.htmlType === 6 || block.htmlType === 7) ? 1 : 0;
7 case "paragraph":
8- case "table":
9 return this.blank ? 1 : 0;
10+ case "table":
11+ if (this.blank) return 1;
12+ return this.lineInterruptsTable() ? 1 : 0;
13 case "list":
14 return 0;
15 default:
ts
1 /** Whether the line at nextNonspace starts a block that ends a GFM table. */
2 lineInterruptsTable(): boolean {
3 if (this.indented) return false;
4 const c = this.code(this.nextNonspace);
5 if (c === GT) return true;
6 // Also check ATX headings, fences, thematic breaks, list items and HTML block starts
7 // without mutating parser state (the scans that tryAtxHeading/tryFence/... do first).
8 return false;
9 }
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6Review comment at @apps/web/src/markdown/blocks.ts around lines 403 - 405:
7Update the table handling in continues so non-blank lines that start a block
8capable of interrupting a GFM table are reprocessed as new blocks instead of
9added as table rows, while preserving blank-line behavior. Add a
10table-followed-by-block-quote case to CHAT_MARKDOWN_CASES in
11markdownParity.test.ts to verify parity with remark.
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Added 10 commits

  • perf(web): Markdown links and file chips share one tooltip, and static blocks render as HTML by defaultcf7e64c
  • feat(web): the fast Markdown parser handles the chat's math syntax, so math no longer falls back to micromark81abecd
  • perf(web): Markdown positions are shared, text direction skips building prose for left-to-right blocks7f390ed
  • perf(web): offscreen pull request comments skip layout and painte3d47a2
  • perf(web): closed Markdown details mount Base UI only when hovered or focused, and file links resolve once69c9fb6
  • perf(web): code block buttons share the message's tooltip, which closes on press as Base UI's does2425744
  • perf(web): finished messages scan for file links once, and raw HTML runs heading ids and code isolation only when it needs thema0452a6
  • perf(web): a streamed reply splits into blocks once per update and looks up file links per block without building keys6bc1520
  • Merge remote-tracking branch 'origin/main' into t3/wasm-markdown-renderer4b68f97
  • style(web): format markdownTextDirectiona3bc49e