Switching sessions ran as one synchronous commit: sidebar highlight, URL,
a full timeline remount with markdown re-parse, and around nine requests,
so nothing changed on screen for 150-250ms after the click.
- ChatContainer swaps the timeline on a deferred copy of the selection, so
the active row, URL, and tab commit first and the timeline renders behind
them; selection policy keeps reading the live store value.
- The message fetch starts before the selection is published.
- Sidebar rows stop re-rendering on a project switch: directory-scoped sync
hooks read the runtime context and a subscribable current-directory source
instead of the directory-bearing context; the grouping builder reads git
branches through a ref and section caches key the branches they use;
descendant ids are keyed by content. Rows per switch went from 73 to 8.
- Markdown skips the async re-render when the settled cached blocks are
already painted, and mounts synchronously once its lazy module is loaded;
the module is preloaded at boot.
- A timeline reveal gate holds a freshly opened session at opacity 0 while
any provisional markdown paint catches up (250ms cap), then fades the whole
timeline in once, so text, tools, and recap appear together.
- Switch fan-out trimmed: knowledge summary deduped, MCP status refreshed only
when stale, non-repo directories cached by the git repo check, OpenChamber
defaults cached briefly, agent memory reused for the same project, goal
text cached, PWA manifest rebuilt after the switch settles.
- Header tabs snap into the active state and keep the title at the same
height in both states.
- Prefetch on row press; composer focus moved off the commit.
`bun run profile:switch` records ack/content latency, longest task, and
requests per switch, cold and warm, and compares runs against a baseline.
Measured warm switch: ack 228ms to about 40-60ms, content 228ms to about
100-120ms.
Bohdan Triapitsyn
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