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Desktop renderer style-recalculation freezes and related performance fixes

Cluster 99889 · apps/desktop. Data as of

2 open items. Fix attempted, not merged.

The short answer

1open issue
1open PR
3items grouped
Known?
Yes. 3 related items grouped here, 0 issues already closed.
Fix event
No fix has been merged to main. 1 PR closed without merging; see the attempts below.
Tracker
The maintainers' tracker marks this unresolved. That is separate from the fix event.
Still open
1 issue and 1 PR.

The members share one theme: desktop UI freezes tied to style recalculation. One is a Windows bug report describing long recalcs over thousands of nodes, and two are performance changes targeting style recalculation cost, such as keyframes, containment, throttled measures, typing cost, and sticky-prompt restyling. Whether the changes address the report is not established by the titles.

Open issues1

  • Issue#99889[Bug]: Desktop (Windows): interaction freezes dominated by style recalculation — 48% of renderer main-thread time, single recalcs up to 1.4 s over ~6k nodes (invalidation-tracking traces included)

Open PRs1

  • PR#144903perf(desktop): typing cost no longer grows with loaded history; sticky-prompt clip stops restyling turns (salvage #120598, #133314)

1 PR closed without merging

From the close comments: partial fix 1

  • #100215 fix(desktop): eliminate style-recalc freezes — static keyframes, containment, throttled measures · partial fix → efa09f4, #117102, #99889
How this cluster was grouped
  • Link evidence (structural links throughout): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.
  • Pairwise link density 0.67: the share of item pairs that carry a link, counting a structural link in full and a relevance-only link at 0.36. 1.00 means every pair is linked.

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1 PR closed without merging

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