hermes-agent/apps/desktop/scripts
Brooklyn Nicholson 31d49f0dfc perf(desktop): share one ResizeObserver instead of one per consumer
A CDP trace of one sash drag settled what the render counters could not.
I had assumed the remaining cost was layout/paint; it was not:

  script 6770ms | style 1866ms | layout 71ms

Layout was never the problem. The top attributable callsite in our own
code was use-resize-observer.ts at 977ms.

Counting the callbacks named the mechanism exactly: 8,620 ResizeObserver
instances constructed, and during a 40-move drag 2,600 callbacks each
carrying exactly ONE entry — 65 separate callbacks per pointermove. Every
consumer owned a private observer, so N elements resizing under a common
ancestor meant N trips through the observer machinery instead of one
batched delivery. With five mounted tiles that is ~100 user bubbles, each
with its own observer, all woken by a width change.

One shared observer with a WeakMap of target -> handlers. Callers keep
their exact contract: a handler observing several elements is still
invoked once with all of its entries, and unobserve happens when the last
handler for an element goes away.

Verified by trace, before -> after:

  use-resize-observer   977ms -> 42.5ms   (-96%)
  style recalc         1866ms -> 1145ms   (-39%)
  total script         6770ms -> 3929ms   (-42%)

Callback count 2,600 -> 43: one delivery per frame instead of 65.

Adds the two probes that found it. diag-drag-trace.mjs takes a real
timeline trace and prints the style/layout/script split plus the top
script callsites — that split is what disproved the layout theory.
diag-ro-storm.mjs counts RO callbacks vs entries, which is what
distinguished 'a few expensive calls' from 'very many cheap ones'.
2026-07-26 19:56:55 -05:00
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perf perf(desktop): stop every zone subscribing to the whole layout tree 2026-07-26 16:53:20 -05:00
.gitignore feat(desktop): Memory Graph — playable radial timeline of memories + skills 2026-06-30 00:54:21 -05:00
after-pack.mjs feat(desktop): ts-ify everything 2026-07-08 16:24:16 -07:00
assert-dist-built.mjs cleanup(desktop): remove 'use strict' in ts & mjs 2026-07-13 17:22:17 -04:00
assert-dist-built.test.mjs test(desktop): run scripts/ tests in vitest 2026-07-13 17:22:17 -04:00
assert-root-install.mjs feat(desktop): ts-ify everything 2026-07-08 16:24:16 -07:00
before-build.mjs feat(desktop): ts-ify everything 2026-07-08 16:24:16 -07:00
before-pack.mjs fix(windows): verify rebuilt Hermes.exe integrity before shipping it as an update (#69179) 2026-07-24 19:11:35 -07:00
before-pack.test.mjs fix(windows): verify rebuilt Hermes.exe integrity before shipping it as an update (#69179) 2026-07-24 19:11:35 -07:00
bundle-electron-main.mjs fix(desktop): stop using tsx to boot Electron main in dev 2026-07-08 22:40:51 -05:00
click-session.mjs Add Hermes desktop app (#20059) 2026-05-31 17:46:56 -05:00
dev-mock.mjs feat(desktop/e2e): Playwright E2E suite with visual regression diffs 2026-07-20 11:44:40 -04:00
dev-no-hmr.mjs Add Hermes desktop app (#20059) 2026-05-31 17:46:56 -05:00
diag-drag-churn.mjs perf(desktop): stop every zone subscribing to the whole layout tree 2026-07-26 16:53:20 -05:00
diag-drag-trace.mjs perf(desktop): share one ResizeObserver instead of one per consumer 2026-07-26 19:56:55 -05:00
diag-jump.mjs Add Hermes desktop app (#20059) 2026-05-31 17:46:56 -05:00
diag-ro-storm.mjs perf(desktop): share one ResizeObserver instead of one per consumer 2026-07-26 19:56:55 -05:00
diag-scroll-reset.mjs fix(desktop): stop chat scroll jumping by disabling native scroll anchoring 2026-06-02 23:08:01 -05:00
eval.mjs Add Hermes desktop app (#20059) 2026-05-31 17:46:56 -05:00
gen-share-codes.ts feat(desktop): Memory Graph — playable radial timeline of memories + skills 2026-06-30 00:54:21 -05:00
notarize-artifact.mjs feat(desktop): ts-ify everything 2026-07-08 16:24:16 -07:00
notarize.mjs feat(desktop): ts-ify everything 2026-07-08 16:24:16 -07:00
patch-electron-builder-mac-binary.mjs feat(desktop): ts-ify everything 2026-07-08 16:24:16 -07:00
probe-model-picker.mjs perf(desktop): add model-picker open-latency probes 2026-07-26 01:10:22 -05:00
probe-renderer.mjs Add Hermes desktop app (#20059) 2026-05-31 17:46:56 -05:00
probe-thread.mjs Add Hermes desktop app (#20059) 2026-05-31 17:46:56 -05:00
profile-model-picker.mjs perf(desktop): add model-picker open-latency probes 2026-07-26 01:10:22 -05:00
profile-typing-lag.md bench(desktop): systematized perf harness; sunset 12 one-off scripts (#67466) 2026-07-19 07:41:00 -04:00
rebuild-native.mjs feat(desktop): ts-ify everything 2026-07-08 16:24:16 -07:00
reload-renderer.mjs Add Hermes desktop app (#20059) 2026-05-31 17:46:56 -05:00
reload.mjs Add Hermes desktop app (#20059) 2026-05-31 17:46:56 -05:00
run-electron-builder.mjs feat(desktop): ts-ify everything 2026-07-08 16:24:16 -07:00
set-exe-identity.mjs feat(desktop): ts-ify everything 2026-07-08 16:24:16 -07:00
stage-native-deps.mjs fix(desktop): preserve node-pty helper in packaged app (#65611) 2026-07-16 11:58:50 +00:00
stage-native-deps.test.mjs fix(desktop): preserve node-pty helper in packaged app (#65611) 2026-07-16 11:58:50 +00:00
test-desktop.mjs change(ci/desktop): move desktop app build into check job 2026-07-13 17:22:17 -04:00
utils.mjs feat(desktop): ts-ify everything 2026-07-08 16:24:16 -07:00
write-build-stamp.mjs fix(desktop): stop hard-failing pack on non-git checkouts + fix ZIP-path autocrlf (supersedes #67643) (#67730) 2026-07-19 19:29:36 -04:00
write-build-stamp.test.mjs fix(desktop): stop hard-failing pack on non-git checkouts + fix ZIP-path autocrlf (supersedes #67643) (#67730) 2026-07-19 19:29:36 -04:00