EventController.handleEvent rebuilt the editor's status-line top border
synchronously on every session event via updateEditorTopBorder(). During
a long-running eval that fires 5-10 events/s, each rebuild ran
StatusLine.getTopBorder → #buildSegmentContext → getCachedContextBreakdown
→ session.getContextUsage → estimateTokens (with JSON.stringify per
toolCall block) — the render pipeline is throttled to ~30 fps, so most
rebuilds were dropped before painting. Combined with a scheduler that
collapsed cadenceDelay to zero whenever a frame overran the 33ms budget,
the TUI busy-looped at ~40-50% CPU.
Fix:
- Editor gains setTopBorderProvider(): a lazy builder invoked once per
editor render. InteractiveMode installs it in the constructor and on
setEditorComponent, so the rebuild coalesces to the render tempo
regardless of event rate.
- Delete updateEditorTopBorder wrapper (now equivalent to
ui.requestRender) and inline every call site.
- Add adaptive render backpressure: a frame that exceeds
MIN_RENDER_INTERVAL_MS inflates the next scheduling delay to
2 * last_frame_cost, capped at 200 ms, targeting a 50% render duty
cycle instead of pinning the CPU at t=0.
New regression tests:
- editor-top-border-provider.test.ts: provider fires exactly once per
render, wins over eager setTopBorder, falls back when cleared, gets
the correct availableWidth.
- adaptive-render-backpressure.test.ts: cheap frames keep the 33 ms
cadence, a slow frame idles proportionally, pathological frames are
capped at 200 ms.
Verified with bun test packages/tui/test (all 246 relevant tests pass)
and bun test packages/coding-agent/test/modes (455 tests pass). Three
pre-existing agent-session-handoff snapcompact failures on main are
unrelated (snapcompactSupportedChars binding).
Fixes#4145
- Inlined the temporary model status formatting logic directly into the controller.
- Removed the unused `formatTemporaryModelStatus` utility function and its associated test.
- Added new `tui.tight` setting with default `false` and documented behavior.
- Added global tight-mode APIs and `setIgnoreTight` propagation across Box, Text, and Markdown.
- Handled `tui.tight` updates to refresh UI borders and trigger rerendering.
- Updated key message components to ignore tight mode selectively and preserve intended spacing.
Routed git.enabled through the status-line settings refresh path so runtime toggles close existing watchers and redraw the top border immediately.
Fixes#2847
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