All previous numbers were spread across rounds with different instruments and
different workloads. This is one instrument, one workload, alternated, 2 runs per
side, merge-base vs HEAD:
server idle 141.9 -> 89.7 MiB (-37%)
server loaded 257.3 -> 173.0 MiB (-33%)
server peak 705.2 -> 568.4 MiB (-19%)
after idle soak 332.0 -> 232.5 MiB (-30%)
JS event listeners 10,126 -> 7,774 (-23%)
React fibers 5,224 -> 3,588 (-31%)
DOM nodes 9,175 -> 8,284 (-10%)
browser JS heap 55.2 -> 51.1 MiB (-7%)
image 410 -> 398 MB (-3%)
container CPU 22.8 -> 22.8 s unchanged
Recorded prominently rather than buried: under *sustained* 4-tab load the two builds
converge, 368 vs 364 MiB. The wins are idle, steady state and peak. That is why
hammering the app with five tabs did not feel 30% lighter — at saturation the
footprint is live widget data and render churn, which this PR does not change.
Also documents the gaps, since "tested" without them would be misleading: no
multi-hour soak (the #5301 reports are about days), single user, SQLite only, the
DevTools Profiler tab confirmed at bundle level rather than in the extension, and
the App Router re-rendering ~1x/second still unfixed.
verify-context-menu.mts now also covers touch long-press, and no longer asserts on a
fiber total — that counter swung 7,454 to 16,149 between runs of the same build, so
it was noise. probe-fiber-tree.mts is the stable counter and is what the -31% above
comes from.
Thomas Camlong
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