- Defer MCP server discovery off the first-paint critical path for UI
sessions; tools and slash commands stream in through the existing
live-refresh channel once each server connects (non-UI modes keep the
blocking path). ~290ms off first paint with MCP servers configured.
- Build the model catalog's canonical-equivalence index lazily on first
read instead of eagerly in the ModelRegistry constructor. A default
interactive launch never reads it pre-paint, moving the ~210ms build
(over ~3,200 models) off the critical path: ~244ms (~16%) off cold boot.
- Memoize per-session read summaries (tree-sitter parse) on the content
hash of the freshly-read bytes; the file is still read fresh each call
so results stay correct. Repeat same-file summary read 17ms -> 2.4ms.
- Reuse the Markdown subtree across streaming reveal ticks, memoize
grapheme counting, and stop re-highlighting finalized thinking blocks.
- Attribute the previously-unlabeled synchronous boot region in the
PI_TIMING table and add a bench:guard boot-regression target.
- Added a new `edit-lsp-writethrough.bench.ts` benchmark to measure writethrough latency with and without deferred diagnostics.
- Added a slow-server case to `lsp-diagnostics-freshness.test.ts` that confirmed deferred diagnostics arrive after a prompt inline return.
Before this change, every navigateTree → renderInitialMessages call path
performed two independent O(N) session-tree walks:
1. agent-session.ts:6586 buildDisplaySessionContext() [inside navigateTree]
2. ui-helpers.ts:402 sessionManager.buildSessionContext() [inside renderInitialMessages]
Changes:
- agent-session.ts: navigateTree() now calls sessionManager.buildSessionContext()
once, derives the display (deobfuscated) context from the raw result, and
returns the raw SessionContext in the result object.
- ui-helpers.ts: renderInitialMessages() accepts an optional prebuiltContext
parameter; reuses it when provided, falls back to buildSessionContext() otherwise.
- interactive-mode.ts: forwards prebuiltContext through the wrapper.
- modes/types.ts: updates InteractiveModeContext interface to match.
- selector-controller.ts: passes result.sessionContext from navigateTree into
renderInitialMessages(), closing the deduplication loop.
Bench (100-msg session, 200 iterations):
two walks [BEFORE]: 0.0702ms/op
one walk [AFTER]: 0.0298ms/op
Saved: 0.0404ms/navigation (57.5% reduction per navigate)
Tests: render-initial-messages-dedupe.test.ts asserts buildSessionContext is
called 0 times when a prebuilt context is passed, 1 time as fallback.
- Migrated timing measurements from `performance.now()` to `Bun.nanoseconds()` for higher precision benchmarking across all benchmark and timing-sensitive code.
- Updated elapsed time calculations to convert nanoseconds to milliseconds using division by 1e6 to maintain consistent time units.
- Increased benchmark precision from 4 to 6 decimal places for per-operation timing measurements.
- Refactored grep benchmark to use averaged timing values instead of storing individual iteration times, reducing memory overhead.
- Added native text utilities in pi-natives (visible width, truncation, slicing, segment extraction)
- Wired pi-tui to use native implementations with short-string JS fast path
- Optimized key matching via cached parsed key ids
- Refactored visual truncation to reuse Text instances
- Reduced theme color lookups by switching from Map to plain records
- Regenerated WASM artifacts
Benchmarks (after vs before, lower is better):
- truncateToWidth/ansi: 20.37ms vs 38.13ms (2000 iters)
- sliceWithWidth/ansi: 5.12ms vs 20.39ms
- extractSegments/ansi: 8.92ms vs 27.60ms
- truncateToVisualLines: 3.51ms vs 411.55ms (500 iters)
- visibleWidth/ansi: 0.24ms vs 0.31ms
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