Files
buzz/mobile/lib/features/channels/message_content
Tom Brow 98a6db5d67 perf(mobile): avoid reparsing unchanged Markdown (#7649)
When a channel screen updates, Buzz Mobile can parse and format a
message again even when its text has not changed. This repeated work
runs on the same thread that handles taps and updates the screen.

The current Markdown library, `gpt_markdown` 1.2.1, checks whether the
objects used to render mentions, emoji, and channel links have changed.
Buzz creates new objects on every message rebuild, so the library parses
the message again. This change reuses those objects while their inputs
stay the same. Changes to labels, mention targets, emoji, media details,
or available actions still update the message. Taps continue to use the
latest action handlers.

In a synthetic test with the production message widget, ten unchanged
rebuilds caused 30 parser calls before this change and zero after it.
The first render still requires parsing. This test measures repeated
parsing, not overall screen speed.

Validation:

- All 91 focused message tests and 2,127 mobile tests passed. The new
regression test fails with the original code. Tests also cover changed
message data and current tap actions.
- Static checks across the repository, desktop and Tauri tests, and
desktop and web builds passed. The full local test run hit an existing
Rust ACP keepalive timing failure. Its exact retry passed, and all
checks skipped after that failure were run separately and passed.

Signed-off-by: Tom Brow <tomb@block.xyz>
2026-09-15 11:11:34 -07:00
..