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perf(tui): cache transcript row renders, grow caches with the live tail, and scan the provider catalog without cloning - #1223
Implements the two parts approved in #1196 as two separate commits, stacked on current main (9117d77):
Commit 1 — perf(tui): transcript render caches and per-frame allocation work
Auto-growing height and row-render LRU caches (transcript_body_cache.go): content-addressed keys, auto-doubling from the static caps (512 height / 256 render entries) toward hard ceilings of 65536 entries / 8MB retained render text, reset-on-rebuild, so a live tail larger than the old static caps no longer evicts rows the next frame still needs.
rowKey struct replaces strconv.Itoa(runID) + ":" + id string keys in the rowContext maps (rendering.go), removing per-row key allocation from every pass.
Settled transcript rows route through the shared render cache; selection/hover paint fresh on top of cached pre-highlight lines. The streaming interim block converts accumulated reasoning once per frame instead of once per consumer.
Commit 2 — perf(providercatalog): Find() scan instead of whole-catalog cloning
Find(pred) reads the internal descriptors only to evaluate the predicate and returns cloneDescriptor(match) — the same clone Get() already pays — so matched slices and the header map are never handed out shared.
providerDescriptorByBaseURL uses Find() instead of the All() scan.
As noted in review, the whole-catalog clone ran on every frame only for some profiles: view.go calls modelContextWindow each render, a catalog-ID-resolving profile costs one Get clone, and only a custom or base-URL-only profile falls through to the All() scan — so the saving lands mostly on those profiles.
Tests
TestStreamingTailFramesHitCachesPastStaticCaps — model-level steady-frame test: zero height-cache misses and ≤8 render rebuilds across repeated frames on a live tail past the static caps. (Provenance note: driving this test alone against a growth-disabled cache still passed in my run — its working set sits under the static height cap once the frontier blocks; the growth contract is pinned by the unit tests below.)
TestTranscriptBodyHeightCacheGrowsBeyondInitialCap, TestTranscriptBodyRenderCacheGrowsBeyondInitialCap, TestTranscriptBodyHeightCacheEvictsAtHardCap — verified to fail when growLocked is neutered, pass with it restored.
TestFindReturnsMatchingDescriptorAsClone — mutates the returned descriptor's slices and re-finds, pinning the clone contract.
TestModelContextWindowResolvesBaseURLOnlyProfilePerFrame (new, requested in review) — drives the per-frame modelContextWindow lookup with a base-URL-only profile, pins that the Find-based resolution returns the active provider's discovered window over the random-order fallback map scan (repeated to defeat map-order luck), and pins that the per-frame result is a clone.
Validation
make fmt-check, go vet ./..., git diff --check clean.
go test ./internal/tui/ ./internal/providercatalog/ passes, except the pre-existing, environmental TestRelativeAgeFormatsLastActivity date-boundary failure, which reproduces identically on clean main (9117d77) and is untouched by this change.
go build ./..., go run ./cmd/zero-release build, and go run ./cmd/zero-release smoke pass.
Scope
The ChangeObserver file-hash cache and the --cpuprofile/--memprofile flags are deliberately not here — they are #1199 and #1200, pending maintainer decisions, per the review split.
Byte budget excluded the cache key — transcriptBodyRenderCache.render charged only len(rendered) while eviction subtracts entry.chars; the retained map key (and entry.key) live for the entry's lifetime, so a working set of long content-addressed keys could silently overshoot the 8MB ceiling. Insertion now charges len(rendered) + len(key).
Cached selectable retained another row's index — the render cache is content-addressed, so byte-identical rows (e.g. two collapsed Thought headers with empty ids) share one entry whose selectable lines bake the first row's transcript index; a click on the duplicate toggled the wrong row. rebindSelectableIdentity now restamps the requesting row's rowIndex/specialistID onto the cached lines every frame. Grouped explore cards can't be fixed by rebind (each line carries a different member's index), so their render key is specialised with the group's row indices (exploreGroupRenderCacheKey) while the height key stays content-only.
Unused clear() — the helper introduced by the cache commit was dead code; removed.
Regression tests (transcript_body_cache_test.go): key accounting pinned against the ceiling with long keys; duplicate-row identity rebind (two identical rows, click targets the second); grouped-explore index isolation (two byte-identical groups at different positions keep distinct selectable indices). Each verified to fail on the unfixed code.
Validation for this commit:make fmt-check, go vet ./..., git diff --check clean; go test -race ./internal/tui/ passes under TZ=UTC (the TestRelativeAgeFormatsLastActivity failure above is timezone-dependent and reproduces on the clean head without these changes); go build ./..., zero-release build, and zero-release smoke pass; govulncheck reports no vulnerabilities; make lint-static reports no findings in the touched files (removed the pre-existing clear() unused finding).
Checklist
The linked issue already has the issue-approved label.
go build ./..., go vet ./..., and the affected test packages pass locally.
gofmt clean.
Tests added/updated for the change.
No screenshots needed: no user-visible UI change (internal render-path caching only).
Summary by CodeRabbit
Improvements
Transcript rendering remains more consistent during streaming and in longer sessions, with faster reuse of rendered content as you scroll.
Selecting duplicate reasoning sections and grouped Explore cards now targets the correct transcript row.
Provider-specific context window information is resolved more reliably for profiles configured with a base URL.
Theme changes and transcript rebuilds refresh displayed content more reliably.
… tail
Profile-driven fixes from cpu2/cpu3/cpu4 sessions, where a long
streaming tail thrashed the static transcript caches and every
throbber frame re-rendered the whole run (~78% of session CPU).
First of two commits for Twigpine#1196; the provider-catalog lookup scan is
the second.
- transcript_body_cache: auto-growing height and row-render LRU caches
(content-addressed keys, hard ceilings 65536 entries / 8MB render
text) with reset-on-rebuild, so a live tail larger than the static
caps no longer evicts rows the next frame still needs.
TestTranscriptBodyHeightCacheGrowsBeyondInitialCap,
TestTranscriptBodyRenderCacheGrowsBeyondInitialCap, and
TestTranscriptBodyHeightCacheEvictsAtHardCap pin the growth/eviction
contract: each fails when growLocked is neutered.
TestStreamingTailFramesHitCachesPastStaticCaps drives a steady-frame
model-level replay and asserts zero height-cache misses and a
bounded render rebuild count.
- rendering: rowKey struct replaces strconv-built string keys in the
rowContext maps, removing per-row key allocation from every pass.
- transcript_selection: settled rows route through the shared render
cache; selection/hover paint fresh on top of cached pre-highlight
lines. Streaming interim block converts accumulated reasoning once
per frame instead of once per consumer.
Validation: fmt-check, vet, and tui tests pass.
…talog
Second of two commits for Twigpine#1196. view.go calls modelContextWindow on
every render, which resolves the active provider through
descriptorForProfile to providerDescriptorByBaseURL. A profile with a
resolvable catalog ID costs one Get clone, but a custom or
base-URL-only profile falls through to providerDescriptorByBaseURL,
which cloned every catalog descriptor through All() on every frame
(~12.5% of all allocations). The saving lands mostly on those
profiles.
- providercatalog.Find(pred) scans the internal descriptors and
returns cloneDescriptor(match), so only the matched entry pays a
clone and the matched slices and header map are never handed out
shared with the catalog.
- providerDescriptorByBaseURL uses Find instead of an All scan.
- Tests: TestFindReturnsMatchingDescriptorAsClone pins the clone
contract next to the existing Get tests, and
TestModelContextWindowResolvesBaseURLOnlyProfilePerFrame drives the
per-frame lookup with a base-URL-only profile, as requested in
review.
Validation: fmt-check, vet, and tui/providercatalog tests pass.
The TUI adds growing height and render caches for transcript rows, reuses rendered text and selectable geometry, and resets caches after transcript rebuilds or theme changes. Provider resolution by base URL now uses a catalog search that clones only the matching descriptor.
Changes
Transcript rendering cache
Layer / File(s)
Summary
Cache capacity and render reuse internal/tui/transcript_body_cache.go, internal/tui/transcript_body_cache_test.go
Height and render caches grow within configured limits and support reset. Tests cover growth, eviction, reset, key-byte accounting, and streaming-tail cache reuse.
Transcript rows use cached text and selectable geometry with rebound row identity. Tool-call state uses structured row keys. Interim reasoning text is converted once per frame. Transcript rebuilds and theme changes clear the render caches. Tests cover selection of distinct duplicate rows.
Provider catalog lookup
Layer / File(s)
Summary
Catalog search and provider resolution internal/providercatalog/catalog.go, internal/providercatalog/catalog_test.go, internal/tui/picker.go, internal/tui/picker_test.go
Find returns a cloned first descriptor that matches a predicate. Base-URL provider resolution uses Find; tests cover cloning and context-window selection.
Change: Refactor · Severity of issue fixed: Medium
Sequence Diagram(s)
sequenceDiagram
participant transcript_selection
participant cachedTranscriptBodyRender
participant defaultTranscriptBodyRenders
transcript_selection->>cachedTranscriptBodyRender: request body text and selectable geometry
cachedTranscriptBodyRender->>defaultTranscriptBodyRenders: look up stable row key
alt cache hit
defaultTranscriptBodyRenders-->>cachedTranscriptBodyRender: return cached text and geometry
else cache miss
cachedTranscriptBodyRender->>defaultTranscriptBodyRenders: store rendered text and geometry
end
cachedTranscriptBodyRender-->>transcript_selection: return text and geometry for finalization
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Suggested reviewers: anandh8x
Merge Risk: Minimal · up to 0df74
This change grows the transcript render caches and makes base-URL provider lookup clone only the matching descriptor. Both earlier review findings are reported as addressed, and no remaining concrete risk is evident from the supplied context. It looks ready to merge after the normal checks.
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Issue #1196 coding requirements, checked at head 0df74b5 against merge base 9117d77:
1. Caches grow with the live tail [#1196]. Implemented in transcript_body_cache.go. The height cache starts at…
(a) Change TestStreamingTailFramesHitCachesPastStaticCaps so that it fails when growLocked is disabled. Make the working set exceed both the static height cap and the static render cap while the frontier does not block those rows. Confi…
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The title names the main change: transcript row render caching, cache growth with the live tail, and a provider catalog scan without cloning. The objectives and raw summary cover all three parts. The …
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All changed areas map to #1196 objectives or to correctness fixes within those objectives. The changed areas are: providercatalog Find and its test; picker providerDescriptorByBaseURL and its test…
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The title names the main change: transcript row render caching, cache growth with the live tail, and a provider catalog scan without cloning. The objectives and raw summary cover all three parts. The title uses the conventional commit form and is one line. It names the performance work, which matches the PR objectives.
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All changed areas map to #1196 objectives or to correctness fixes within those objectives. The changed areas are: providercatalog Find and its test; picker providerDescriptorByBaseURL and its test; rendering.gorowKey; transcript_body_cache.go and its tests (growth, hard-cap eviction, reset, key byte charging); transcript_selection.go settled-row, reasoning, and grouped-explore keys; model.gointerimBlockWithReasoning and activeToolCall; flush.go and theme_select.go cache resets. The follow-up changes (key-byte accounting, duplicate-row identity, grouped-explore index isolation) support the render cache objective and are covered by their own regression tests. The ChangeObserver hash cache and profiling flags (#1199, #1200) are not in the changed areas. No unrelated change was found in the available evidence.
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Issue #1196 coding requirements, checked at head 0df74b5 against merge base 9117d77:
Caches grow with the live tail [#1196]. Implemented in transcript_body_cache.go. The height cache starts at defaultTranscriptBodyHeightCacheMaxEntries (2048 per the test comments), not the 512 initial cap that #1196 names. The render cache hard cap is 8,192 entries and 8 MiB. #1196 names 65,536 entries / 8 MB. The ceiling differs from the issue text.
Reset on rebuild [#1196]. Implemented (resetFlushFrontier in flush.go, applyTheme in theme_select.go, reset() methods). Tests TestTranscriptBodyHeightCacheResetShrinksCeiling and TestTranscriptBodyRenderCacheResetRestoresDefaults cover this.
rowKey replaces string keys in rowContext [#1196]. Implemented (rendering.go, model.go).
Settled rows use the shared render cache. Selection and hover paint fresh [#1196]. Implemented (transcript_selection.go). Tests TestDuplicateReasoningHeadersToggleOwnRow and TestExploreGroupClickTargetsOwnRow cover identity rebinding and grouped-explore keys.
Streaming reasoning converted once per frame [#1196]. Implemented (interimBlockWithReasoning, transcript_selection.go).
providercatalog.Find returns only a clone of the match [#1196]. Implemented (catalog.go). providerDescriptorByBaseURL uses Find (picker.go). Covered by TestFindReturnsMatchingDescriptorAsClone and TestModelContextWindowResolvesBaseURLOnlyProfilePerFrame.
Regression test that fails without the growth fix [#1196]. NOT MET. The issue states that TestStreamingTailFramesHitCachesPastStaticCaps fails without the growth fix. The head still has this test unchanged in its core logic. The PR description states that this test passed in a run with growth disabled, because its working set falls under the static height cap once the frontier blocks. The test's comment claims it fails when growLocked is neutered. That claim conflicts with the author's own run report and is not reproduced here. The cache-growth unit tests (...GrowsBeyondInitialCap, ...EvictsAtHardCap) do guard growth. They do not satisfy the issue's stated regression-test requirement.
Uncertainty: repository diffs for the changes since the previous review were unavailable in this run. Test and cache code were read from the head file blobs only. The assessment of item 7 rests on the PR description and the test source, not on a re-run with growth disabled.
Resolution
(a) Change TestStreamingTailFramesHitCachesPastStaticCaps so that it fails when growLocked is disabled. Make the working set exceed both the static height cap and the static render cap while the frontier does not block those rows. Confirm the test fails with growth disabled and passes with growth enabled. Alternatively, (b) obtain a maintainer decision to amend #1196 and remove the claim that this test fails without the growth fix. Also confirm the intended render entry ceiling (8,192 in code versus 65,536 in #1196) and the intended height initial cap (2048 in code versus 512 in #1196).
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Review comments at @internal/tui/transcript_body_cache.go:
- Line 158: Update the byte accounting in the body-cache insertion path: include
the retained key alongside the rendered value in `chars`. Keep using that same
`chars` value for eviction subtraction so insertion and eviction accounting
remain consistent.
Review comments at @internal/tui/transcript_selection.go:
- Around line 429-430: Keep the height cache content-addressed, but prevent
cached selectable metadata from retaining another row’s index: in the
cachedTranscriptBodyRender flow, rebind rowIndex on each cache hit or use a
separate render-cache key that includes row identity. Apply the same correction
to the grouped explore path, whose cache key uses rendered block text. Add a
regression test with identical reasoning rows that have empty IDs at different
indices, verifying each header targets its own row.
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Change `TestStreamingTailFramesHitCachesPastStaticCaps` so that it fails when
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Verify that the test fails with growth disabled and passes with growth restored.
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internal/providercatalog/catalog.go
internal/providercatalog/catalog_test.go
internal/tui/flush.go
internal/tui/model.go
internal/tui/picker.go
internal/tui/picker_test.go
internal/tui/rendering.go
internal/tui/theme_select.go
internal/tui/transcript_body_cache.go
internal/tui/transcript_body_cache_test.go
internal/tui/transcript_selection.go
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Addresses review findings on the transcript body render cache:
- Charge the retained map key in the byte budget (len(rendered) + len(key)),
matching the value eviction subtracts, so long content-addressed keys can
no longer silently overshoot the ceiling.
- The content-addressed render key cannot distinguish byte-identical rows,
so a cached selectable carried the FIRST row's transcript index and a
duplicate row's click toggled the wrong item. rebindSelectableIdentity
restamps the requesting row's rowIndex/specialistID on every frame, and
grouped explore cards (whose lines bake several member indices) get a
render key specialised with their group indices.
- Remove the unused clear() helper introduced by the cache commit.
Regression tests cover key accounting, duplicate-row identity rebind, and
grouped-explore index isolation.
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(a) Change `TestStreamingTailFramesHitCachesPastStaticCaps` so that it fails
when `growLocked` is disabled. Make the working set exceed both the static
height cap and the static render cap while the frontier does not block those
rows. Confirm the test fails with growth disabled and passes with growth
enabled. Alternatively, (b) obtain a maintainer decision to amend #1196 and
remove the claim that this test fails without the growth fix. Also confirm the
intended render entry ceiling (8,192 in code versus 65,536 in #1196) and the
intended height initial cap (2048 in code versus 512 in #1196).
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Summary
Implements the two parts approved in #1196 as two separate commits, stacked on current
main(9117d77):Commit 1 —
perf(tui): transcript render caches and per-frame allocation worktranscript_body_cache.go): content-addressed keys, auto-doubling from the static caps (512 height / 256 render entries) toward hard ceilings of 65536 entries / 8MB retained render text, reset-on-rebuild, so a live tail larger than the old static caps no longer evicts rows the next frame still needs.rowKeystruct replacesstrconv.Itoa(runID) + ":" + idstring keys in therowContextmaps (rendering.go), removing per-row key allocation from every pass.Commit 2 —
perf(providercatalog):Find()scan instead of whole-catalog cloningFind(pred)reads the internal descriptors only to evaluate the predicate and returnscloneDescriptor(match)— the same cloneGet()already pays — so matched slices and the header map are never handed out shared.providerDescriptorByBaseURLusesFind()instead of theAll()scan.As noted in review, the whole-catalog clone ran on every frame only for some profiles:
view.gocallsmodelContextWindoweach render, a catalog-ID-resolving profile costs oneGetclone, and only a custom or base-URL-only profile falls through to theAll()scan — so the saving lands mostly on those profiles.Tests
TestStreamingTailFramesHitCachesPastStaticCaps— model-level steady-frame test: zero height-cache misses and ≤8 render rebuilds across repeated frames on a live tail past the static caps. (Provenance note: driving this test alone against a growth-disabled cache still passed in my run — its working set sits under the static height cap once the frontier blocks; the growth contract is pinned by the unit tests below.)TestTranscriptBodyHeightCacheGrowsBeyondInitialCap,TestTranscriptBodyRenderCacheGrowsBeyondInitialCap,TestTranscriptBodyHeightCacheEvictsAtHardCap— verified to fail whengrowLockedis neutered, pass with it restored.TestFindReturnsMatchingDescriptorAsClone— mutates the returned descriptor's slices and re-finds, pinning the clone contract.TestModelContextWindowResolvesBaseURLOnlyProfilePerFrame(new, requested in review) — drives the per-framemodelContextWindowlookup with a base-URL-only profile, pins that theFind-based resolution returns the active provider's discovered window over the random-order fallback map scan (repeated to defeat map-order luck), and pins that the per-frame result is a clone.Validation
make fmt-check,go vet ./...,git diff --checkclean.go test ./internal/tui/ ./internal/providercatalog/passes, except the pre-existing, environmentalTestRelativeAgeFormatsLastActivitydate-boundary failure, which reproduces identically on cleanmain(9117d77) and is untouched by this change.go build ./...,go run ./cmd/zero-release build, andgo run ./cmd/zero-release smokepass.Scope
The
ChangeObserverfile-hash cache and the--cpuprofile/--memprofileflags are deliberately not here — they are #1199 and #1200, pending maintainer decisions, per the review split.Linked issue
Fixes #1196
Review fixes (commit 0df74b5)
Three findings from review, all fixed:
transcriptBodyRenderCache.rendercharged onlylen(rendered)while eviction subtractsentry.chars; the retained map key (andentry.key) live for the entry's lifetime, so a working set of long content-addressed keys could silently overshoot the 8MB ceiling. Insertion now chargeslen(rendered) + len(key).Thoughtheaders with empty ids) share one entry whose selectable lines bake the first row's transcript index; a click on the duplicate toggled the wrong row.rebindSelectableIdentitynow restamps the requesting row'srowIndex/specialistIDonto the cached lines every frame. Grouped explore cards can't be fixed by rebind (each line carries a different member's index), so their render key is specialised with the group's row indices (exploreGroupRenderCacheKey) while the height key stays content-only.clear()— the helper introduced by the cache commit was dead code; removed.Regression tests (
transcript_body_cache_test.go): key accounting pinned against the ceiling with long keys; duplicate-row identity rebind (two identical rows, click targets the second); grouped-explore index isolation (two byte-identical groups at different positions keep distinct selectable indices). Each verified to fail on the unfixed code.Validation for this commit:
make fmt-check,go vet ./...,git diff --checkclean;go test -race ./internal/tui/passes underTZ=UTC(theTestRelativeAgeFormatsLastActivityfailure above is timezone-dependent and reproduces on the clean head without these changes);go build ./...,zero-release build, andzero-release smokepass;govulncheckreports no vulnerabilities;make lint-staticreports no findings in the touched files (removed the pre-existingclear()unused finding).Checklist
issue-approvedlabel.go build ./...,go vet ./..., and the affected test packages pass locally.gofmtclean.Summary by CodeRabbit