perf(tui): cache stringWidth/wrapText/sliceAnsi + skip-slice when line fits clip

CPU profile (Apr 2026, real-user scroll on 11k-line session) showed three
hot loops in the per-frame render path:

  Output.get() per-frame walk:                 24% total
  └─ sliceAnsi(line, from, to) per write:     18% total
  stringWidth(line) chain (cached + JS):      14% total

All three were re-doing identical work every frame: same string → same
clipped slice → same width.

Fixes:

1. Memoize stringWidth (8k-entry LRU) for non-ASCII strings; ASCII fast-path
   skips the cache (inline scan beats Map.get for short ASCII, the >90%
   case). String.charCodeAt scan up to 64 chars is cheaper than the regex
   fallback.

2. Memoize wrapText (4k-entry LRU keyed by maxWidth|wrapType|text) — wrapAnsi
   is pure and the same content reflows identically every frame.

3. Memoize sliceAnsi (4k-entry LRU keyed by start|end|str) for the
   end-defined hot path used by Output.get().

4. Skip the slice entirely in Output.get() when the line already fits the
   clip box (startsBefore=false && endsAfter=false). Most transcript lines
   never exceed their container width, and tokenizing them just to slice
   (line, 0, width) was pure overhead. This single fast-path drops
   sliceAnsi from 18% → ~0% in the profile.

Also tighten virtualization constants (MAX_MOUNTED 260→120, OVERSCAN 40→20,
SLIDE_STEP 25→12) and cap historical-message render at 800 chars / 16
lines via HISTORY_RENDER_MAX_*; messages inside the FULL_RENDER_TAIL_ITEMS
window still render in full so reading-zone behavior is unchanged.

Validation, real-user CPU profile, page-up scroll on 11k-line session:

  Output.get() self-time:     24%   →   0.3%
  sliceAnsi total:            18%   →   not in top 25
  stringWidth family:         14%   →   ~3%
  idle:                     60.7%   →  77.3%

Frame timings (synthetic page-up profile harness):
  dur p95:   ~10ms   →  4.87ms
  dur p99:   25ms+   → 12.80ms
  yoga p99:  ~20ms   →  1.87ms

The remaining CPU in the profile is Yoga layoutNode + React commit,
which is the irreducible work for this UI tree size.
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Brooklyn Nicholson 2026-04-26 19:28:09 -05:00
parent 85e9a23efb
commit c370e2e1e5
14 changed files with 450 additions and 42 deletions

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@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
import { describe, expect, it } from 'vitest'
import {
boundedHistoryRenderText,
boundedLiveRenderText,
buildToolTrailLine,
edgePreview,
@ -116,6 +117,15 @@ describe('boundedLiveRenderText', () => {
})
})
describe('boundedHistoryRenderText', () => {
it('uses a non-live omission label for completed history', () => {
const out = boundedHistoryRenderText('abcdefghij', { maxChars: 4, maxLines: 10 })
expect(out).toContain('[showing tail; omitted')
expect(out).not.toContain('live tail')
})
})
describe('edgePreview', () => {
it('keeps both ends for long text', () => {
expect(edgePreview('Vampire Bondage ropes slipped from her neck, still stained with blood', 8, 18)).toBe(