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perf(web): reduce work while scrolling large threads - #23942
Large-thread minimap updates scan and update one DOM marker per turn while scrolling.
Change
Draw the rail into a cached canvas and binary-search the visible marker interval. Keep current-turn and exact-bottom state inside the minimap. The merge preserves main's exact-bottom Next behavior, timeline restoration, theme colors, media rendering, hover previews, keyboard navigation and wheel forwarding.
No server, transport, provider, contracts or native-mobile changes. Web and Electron share the renderer. The canvas synchronization and effect-dependency suppressions remain a maintenance tradeoff for human review.
Current performance evidence
The old whole-thread Windows latency percentages are superseded and removed: they were not revalidated after upstream changes. This new experiment measures the isolated production minimap plus main's refresh algorithm, with synthetic visible-range updates. It does not mount MessagesTimeline or measure native scrolling input, whole-thread latency, document rendering, transport, or streaming behavior.
Baseline: current origin/main 44ebb2fe57465d32f2bd07c5eb3d8e871bdf5ed5. Candidate: 1e5ee1bef24. Production Electron 44.10.1 on Windows, shown without taking focus, background throttling disabled. Three fresh processes per version/count, AB/BA/AB order, first and repeat passes of 240 updates. All 36 legs completed without page errors. Final metadata serialization hit a git-diff buffer limit after completion; all raw samples were saved and provenance reconstructed separately.
Turns / pass
Renderer CPU work, main → PR
Change
All-process private memory, main → PR
20 / first
486.8 → 175.0 ms
-64.0%
263.1 → 215.1 MiB
20 / repeat
453.9 → 145.6 ms
-67.9%
269.6 → 219.6 MiB
1000 / first
1308.8 → 140.7 ms
-89.2%
341.6 → 219.1 MiB
1000 / repeat
1451.8 → 107.5 ms
-92.6%
383.6 → 221.7 MiB
4000 / first
5004.8 → 157.0 ms
-96.9%
552.9 → 222.1 MiB
4000 / repeat
5235.1 → 132.6 ms
-97.5%
658.3 → 224.5 MiB
These are medians, n=3 per cell. CPU means CDP TaskDuration, not user latency. Private memory is a sampled end-of-pass all-process value, not peak or post-GC retained memory. Sampled JS heap is modestly higher with canvas; no leak or GPU-memory claim is made. Raw samples, ranges, scripts, exact source diff and build artifacts are preserved outside Git in the task's local performance evidence directory. The isolated CPU and private-memory savings justify keeping this candidate; whole-thread Windows performance remains unmeasured on this head.
Verification
78 timeline/minimap browser cases passed, including exact-bottom navigation, resize, selection, previews, wheel forwarding and canvas paint behavior.
22 focused rail/scroll-target unit cases passed.
Affected web typecheck, changed-file lint, formatting and diff checks passed.
Whole-repo knip was not run as proof: filtered installs omit unrelated Expo/Astro workspaces and initialization fails there.
Implementation and validation: GPT-6.1 Sol through the Codex harness in T3 Code.
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Walkthrough
The timeline minimap replaces per-item DOM markers with a canvas rail. It adds visible-range highlighting, marker navigation and previews, canvas lifecycle handling, and synchronization with timeline updates. Tests cover rendering, interactions, and timeline changes.
Changes: Timeline minimap
Layer / File(s)
Summary
Marker resolution and canvas rendering apps/web/src/components/chat/timelineMinimapRail.ts, apps/web/src/components/chat/timelineMinimapRail.test.ts, apps/web/src/components/chat/TimelineMinimap.tsx, apps/web/src/components/chat/TimelineMinimap.browser.test.tsx, apps/web/test/minimapPixels.ts
The minimap resolves visible marker indices and renders markers on a canvas. Marker-width changes animate over 150 ms unless reduced motion is enabled. Tests cover marker ranges, animation, retargeting, canvas context loss, and painted marker pixels.
Canvas lifecycle and interaction apps/web/src/components/chat/TimelineMinimap.tsx, apps/web/src/components/chat/TimelineMinimap.browser.test.tsx, apps/web/src/components/settings/themeInspector.ts
The minimap exposes visible-range updates through a ref. It handles canvas measurement, resizing, theme and motion changes, navigation, previews, keyboard input, and wheel forwarding. Theme inspection collects paint data from marked canvases.
Timeline synchronization and integration coverage apps/web/src/components/chat/MessagesTimeline.logic.ts, apps/web/src/components/chat/MessagesTimeline.tsx, apps/web/src/components/chat/MessagesTimeline.browser.test.tsx
MessagesTimeline updates the minimap’s visible range and schedules refreshes after row, restoration, and gutter changes. The minimap is keyed by thread identity. Browser tests cover compaction, thread changes, prepended history, and viewport resizing.
sequenceDiagram
participant MessagesTimeline
participant TimelineMinimap
participant Canvas
MessagesTimeline->>TimelineMinimap: updateVisibleRange(start, end)
TimelineMinimap->>Canvas: paint markers and visible range
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Merge Risk: Minimal · previous review 67b12
The previously identified test-order risk is fixed, and no remaining merge-blocking issue is established.
Pre-merge checks: 3 · 1
Failed checks: 1 warning
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The title "perf(web): reduce work while scrolling large threads" follows conventional commit form and matches the main change. The PR replaces per-scroll minimap marker scanning and DOM styling with a…
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The title "perf(web): reduce work while scrolling large threads" follows conventional commit form and matches the main change. The PR replaces per-scroll minimap marker scanning and DOM styling with a Canvas rail, cached backing, and binary-search visible-marker lookup, all aimed at reducing scroll-time work in large threads. The title is concise and specific. It does not name the Canvas renderer, but it does not need to cover every detail.
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Only the first new test (Line 216) calls setup(). The thread-switch, prepend, and resize tests skip it. They share environmentQuery, which the vi.mock factory reads. They can inherit state from an earlier test, so the result depends on test order. Add the call as the first statement of each test body.
it("refreshes visible markers and previous/next destinations after prepending history", async () => {
+ setup();
const entries = history();
it("refreshes the visible band after a height-only resize without changing rows or scroll offset", async () => {
+ setup();
const entries = history();
As per coding guidelines: "Shared mock state that vi.mock factories read is reset by a setup() call at the top of the test."
Also applies to: 459-460, 498-499
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Review comment at
@apps/web/src/components/chat/MessagesTimeline.browser.test.tsx around lines 331
- 333:
Add a call to setup() as the first statement in the thread-switch,
history-prepend, and resize test bodies so each test resets shared mock state
before using it.
Move the static canvas geometry from style to Tailwind classes.
The initial top, left, width, and height values are fixed values. Tailwind classes can express them. measure() later writes runtime values to canvas.style.*. Those inline values still override the classes, so the change keeps the current behavior.
Keep fill: "none" inline. paintCanvasRail toggles canvas.style.fill at runtime. If you clear that inline value, the fill-foreground/90 class shows through, so the initial none must stay in the inline style.
As per coding guidelines: "No style={{ ... }} or inline <style> for static values a class covers. Values computed at runtime are fine."
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Review comment at @apps/web/src/components/chat/TimelineMinimap.tsx around lines
609 - 615:
Move the canvas’s fixed top, left, width, and height values from its inline
style to equivalent Tailwind classes, keeping the runtime `measure()` overrides
effective. Preserve the inline `fill: "none"` value because `paintCanvasRail`
updates `canvas.style.fill`.
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Nitpick comments:
Review comments at
@apps/web/src/components/chat/MessagesTimeline.browser.test.tsx:
- Around line 331-333: Add a call to setup() as the first statement in the
thread-switch, history-prepend, and resize test bodies so each test resets
shared mock state before using it.
Review comments at @apps/web/src/components/chat/TimelineMinimap.tsx:
- Around line 609-615: Move the canvas’s fixed top, left, width, and height
values from its inline style to equivalent Tailwind classes, keeping the runtime
`measure()` overrides effective. Preserve the inline `fill: "none"` value
because `paintCanvasRail` updates `canvas.style.fill`.
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Both nitpicks from the CodeRabbit review are addressed. Commit d6d9e1b resets the shared query mock at the start of the thread-switch, prepend, and resize tests. All 19 timeline browser cases, lint, formatting and whitespace checks pass.
The static canvas geometry was already moved to Tailwind in 7943270, retaining the runtime fill value and imperative sizing.
merged current github/main into the existing branch without rebasing. resolved the minimap conflict by retaining the cached canvas rail and finite hover-width animation; main's competing marker change also aimed to avoid scroll-driven layout work. no additional source changes or test files. pushed 00aa49e72570c31bbddf953d9afaa0b422b23959 without force.
vp run check:changed ce48e459001817092f45f70f334212bb2b973288 passed through blacksmith: format, lint, both knip checks, web/scripts typechecks, 169 tests, and five compiler checks. both independent source reviewers approved this head. github reports no conflicts, all ci completed without failures, and no unresolved review threads.
verified hover previews, middle-marker selection, previous/next navigation, wheel forwarding (scrollTop 3079 to 3679), keyboard navigation, and resize to 1280x800 in chrome through the replay provider and real client. the canvas remained painted and there were no page errors. uploaded playback and seeking were checked. windows/electron performance was not remeasured.
macroscope still requires human approval of the canvas synchronization and effect-dependency lint suppressions. its neutral approvability result is the remaining human decision.
verified linux web behavior on exact head ca8f48711a553da3b1c0c24f61e203593092d3bd, after a baseline on github/main at 575579d68a. no source changes were needed.
i installed both checkouts with vp i and ran one background dev server at a time. playwright from the repository drove /usr/bin/google-chrome on the vm's display. i created the project, threads and all conversation data through the app, using real codex gpt-6.1-sol turns through the local proxy. no replay, mocks, fixtures or copied production history were used. the isolated main database was copied to the pr after main stopped, preserving the comparison data.
the matched stopped thread had 26 turns and a 27,069-pixel timeline. after loading earlier turns through the app, both versions passed home/end and arrow-key selection, middle-marker click to turn 13, previous/next navigation to turns 12/13, hover preview, wheel forwarding and navigation after resizing from 1440×1000 to 1280×800. main rendered 26 dom marker elements; the pr rendered one painted canvas and zero dom markers. the matched screenshots show the same first turn and focused preview.
nearby checks passed: a one-turn thread correctly has no minimap; switching back restores the canvas; dark mode repaints it with the new palette. an additional real codex turn streamed and completed on the pr. scrolling up released live-follow, and clicking "scroll to end" resumed follow through completion. neither recorded interaction pass produced a page error.
short runtime transcript, from browser checks and a read-only query of the isolated dev database:
main: 26 turns, scrollHeight=27069, domMarkers=26, canvas=0
pr: same turns, scrollHeight=27069, domMarkers=0, canvas=1
middle selection: turn 13 visible at y=78
previous / next: turn 12 / turn 13 visible at y=76
wheel over rail: scrollTop 12847 -> 13497
keyboard end: turn 26 visible at y=78
small thread: real reply present; minimap absent
live-follow: released end offset=1434; completed end offset=0
persisted provider/model/status: codex / gpt-6.1-sol / completed, 28 runs
page errors: []
vp run check:changed 54c5f25249961a1aa0b61932329092eadbd9d6fc passed through blacksmith-check: format, lint, both knip checks, web/scripts typechecks, 169 tests across five files and five compiler checks. the worker initially lacked browser binaries; i installed them and reran the check successfully. the pr's 34 reported ci checks are also successful.
Not verified
the original windows desktop slowdown was not reproduced on this linux vm. the baseline confirms the old per-turn dom marker mechanism, but this pass does not prove a windows performance improvement, the existing timing percentages, gpu/memory behavior or very large histories with thousands of turns.
windows/macOS electron, native ios/android, other providers, remote/relay/tunnel connections and reduced-motion/different-dpr hardware were not exercised. the web interaction checks do not substitute for those paths.
git.cafe renders these external media embeds as links. i reopened the comment to check that result, then verified both uploaded images directly and played and sought both videos in t3's player.
@maria-rcks The Windows/Electron revalidation remains blocked on a baseline rendering check. There is no refreshed main/PR performance comparison; the PR’s historical percentages have not been revalidated after the merge.
The real-asset fixture now passes on pinned main fa31b66bbb2ae5234205a8628a78e038d917202f: stopped and active functional cases each completed all 12 HTML visits, and all five incomplete-resource negative controls failed as expected. The planned candidate is local merge b5c3305d1ef30fb9fb1f92478fb52f4a2657d5a2 (published 00aa49e725 plus that main). Published PR source is unchanged.
The frozen R37 attempt stopped after three passing stopped-baseline legs when the fourth leg failed one coverage probe. No active timed controls or candidate ran. R37 did not save enough hit geometry to identify that observation, and remains rejected.
A separate bounded diagnostic, after correcting its Windows path setup, captured a 20 px uncovered DOM gap on the same baseline. Three legs passed; the second process’s repeat leg failed and stopped. In the same animation-frame callback, the loaded HTML row’s root/frame/cell ended at y=192.125, the next mounted message began at y=212.125, and the probe at y=200 hit the virtual-list ancestor. The iframe was present. All 23 chronological checkpoints, 415/415 input acknowledgements, resource, visibility and trace-completion checks passed in that leg.
This is not the earlier intentional 2 px metadata margin, so the gate remains unchanged. Live HTML height replacement and the list’s deferred shrink measurement offer a possible explanation; total list height fell by 20 px in the next saved controller observation. The exact causal branch and physical pixel presentation remain unproved. Capture itself cost 8.5 ms, so this diagnostic supplies no latency or memory comparison and does not retroactively identify R37’s older miss.
I’m stopping full-cohort reruns pending resolution of that baseline gap. No candidate speedup or regression is claimed. Earlier R35 attempts also failed to establish loaded HTML because their legacy asset adapter missed the newer document path; they are not performance evidence. Earlier safe source/geometry audit.
Private raw evidence is preserved locally. All 17 captured process IDs are absent, both ports released, all 777 directly frozen files unchanged, and the experimental branch restored clean.
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Problem
Large-thread minimap updates scan and update one DOM marker per turn while scrolling.
Change
Draw the rail into a cached canvas and binary-search the visible marker interval. Keep current-turn and exact-bottom state inside the minimap. The merge preserves main's exact-bottom Next behavior, timeline restoration, theme colors, media rendering, hover previews, keyboard navigation and wheel forwarding.
No server, transport, provider, contracts or native-mobile changes. Web and Electron share the renderer. The canvas synchronization and effect-dependency suppressions remain a maintenance tradeoff for human review.
Current performance evidence
The old whole-thread Windows latency percentages are superseded and removed: they were not revalidated after upstream changes. This new experiment measures the isolated production minimap plus main's refresh algorithm, with synthetic visible-range updates. It does not mount MessagesTimeline or measure native scrolling input, whole-thread latency, document rendering, transport, or streaming behavior.
Baseline: current origin/main
44ebb2fe57465d32f2bd07c5eb3d8e871bdf5ed5. Candidate:1e5ee1bef24. Production Electron 44.10.1 on Windows, shown without taking focus, background throttling disabled. Three fresh processes per version/count, AB/BA/AB order, first and repeat passes of 240 updates. All 36 legs completed without page errors. Final metadata serialization hit a git-diff buffer limit after completion; all raw samples were saved and provenance reconstructed separately.These are medians, n=3 per cell. CPU means CDP TaskDuration, not user latency. Private memory is a sampled end-of-pass all-process value, not peak or post-GC retained memory. Sampled JS heap is modestly higher with canvas; no leak or GPU-memory claim is made. Raw samples, ranges, scripts, exact source diff and build artifacts are preserved outside Git in the task's local performance evidence directory. The isolated CPU and private-memory savings justify keeping this candidate; whole-thread Windows performance remains unmeasured on this head.
Verification
Implementation and validation: GPT-6.1 Sol through the Codex harness in T3 Code.