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perf(web): Expand all folders in the diff file tree no longer rescans every folder for each expansion - #31465
In the diff panel's file tree, "Expand all folders" holds the main thread for seconds when the diff touches thousands of folders, and the time grows with the square of the folder count. In the browser harness below, one click took 130 ms for a diff with 601 folders, 1.04 s for 2,001 and 4.3 s for 4,001 (medians of 5), all in one long task. The same click with this change took 66 ms, 152 ms and 278 ms.
The cause is in DiffFileTree. It tracks whether every folder is expanded (for the button's icon and label) with useFileTreeSelector(model, areAllDirectoriesExpanded(...)). Expanding a folder makes the Pierre tree emit an event, "Expand all folders" expands every folder, and the selector runs areAllDirectoriesExpanded on every event. That function stops at the first collapsed folder, so while the folders open from the top, the k-th event scans k folders: about D^2 / 2 tree lookups for D folders. The test below counts 183,299 getItem calls for 600 folders on main.
"Collapse all folders" is not affected: the first folder it looks at is already collapsed after the first event.
This is the same pattern as the Files panel's Expand all (the second listener there is the same useFileTreeSelector call). It is a separate component and a separate fix.
Change
fileTreeExpansion.ts gets subscribeOncePerTask(model, listener): it forwards the tree's events but calls the listener once per task (a microtask), however many events the tree emitted in it.
DiffFileTree.tsx reads "all folders expanded" with a useSyncExternalStore over that helper instead of useFileTreeSelector. areAllDirectoriesExpanded and setAllDirectoriesExpanded are unchanged.
Behaviour difference: the button's icon and label update one microtask after the tree's last event of a task instead of inside each event. Its value after the last event is the same.
Scope and approval
No issue or discussion exists for this change, and none is linked. It is a performance fix to one component, not a one-line obvious fix, so I'm not claiming the "very small, obvious fix" exception in CONTRIBUTING.md; if you'd rather have an issue first, I'll open one.
Overlap: subscribeOncePerTask is written identically to the helper in #31463, the Files panel change (the same function in the same file). Whichever lands second drops its copy; the two changes touch different components.
How it was measured: test/whunt-diff.renders.tsx (a new file in the renders browser project; not part of this PR) mounts the real DiffPanel and the real DiffFileTree (Pierre tree) in headless Chrome 156 on Windows 11, with the server state atoms stubbed as in DiffPanel.browser.test.tsx. The diff is generated: F files in nested folders (src/pkgK/modJ/fileN.ts, 30 lines each; 600, 2,000 and 4,000 files give 601, 2,001 and 4,001 folders after the tree flattens empty ones). After the tree appears, the harness clicks "Collapse all folders" and "Expand all folders" three times alternately and records click to second frame, and the longest long task (PerformanceObserver). Each cell is the median of the three Expand clicks per process, then the median of 5 processes, with main and this change alternating who goes first, timing lock held, Node 26.12.1. The page is the Vite dev build (React in development mode).
Expand all folders, click to second frame, median (min..max) of 5 alternating pairs:
Folders
main
this change
Longest task, main
Longest task, this change
601
130 ms (124..140)
66 ms (60..72)
114 ms
none over 50 ms
2,001
1,043 ms (974..1,126)
152 ms (138..161)
1,028 ms
135 ms
4,001
4,300 ms (4,139..6,670)
278 ms (268..412)
4,286 ms
260 ms
Main grows 8.0x for 3.3x the folders and 4.1x for 2x more (exponent about 2); this change grows 2.3x and 1.8x. What remains is linear work per commit.
New test (DiffFileTree.browser.test.tsx): 600 folders in two levels, "Collapse all folders" then "Expand all folders" through the real tree, counting FileTree.prototype.getItem calls during the expansion: 183,299 on main (the test fails: expected 183299 to be less than 12000), 3,000 with this change.
vp fmt, vp lint and vp run knip:check passed in the pre-commit hook under Node 26.
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A production build or the desktop renderer: the harness is the Vite dev build with React in development mode. The tree's own lookups are not React and are the same code in production, but I did not measure it there.
macOS and Linux, and a diff from a real repository: the folders are generated, the paths are shorter than most real ones.
The first-open cost of a diff with thousands of files (flat in single harness runs, 0.6 to 0.8 s from 200 to 3,000 files) and the file toggle ("Collapse all files": 166 to 192 ms at 3,000 files, single run) are not changed by this.
Claude Sonnet 5.5 in T3 Code (Claude Code harness).
… every folder for each expansion
The diff panel's file tree tracked "all folders expanded" with useFileTreeSelector, which
runs areAllDirectoriesExpanded over every folder on each tree event. Expanding every folder
emits one event per folder, so the scans grew with the square of the folder count (1.0 s at
2,001 folders, 4.3 s at 4,001). The value now comes from a useSyncExternalStore over
subscribeOncePerTask, which calls the listener once per task however many events the tree
emitted in it (152 ms and 278 ms).
Macroscope's review found this PR approvable — This batches diff-tree expansion notifications to avoid repeated folder scans. The change is confined to UI state updates, with existing expansion defaults and actions preserved.
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Walkthrough
DiffFileTree now reads directory expansion state through useSyncExternalStore with a subscription that coalesces model events per task. A browser test checks FileTree.getItem call counts during expansion of a large tree.
Changes: File tree expansion updates
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Summary
Coalesced expansion state apps/web/src/components/files/fileTreeExpansion.ts, apps/web/src/components/diffs/DiffFileTree.tsx, apps/web/src/components/diffs/DiffFileTree.browser.test.tsx
subscribeOncePerTask coalesces model events into one listener call per task. DiffFileTree uses it to read expanded state with useSyncExternalStore. A browser test checks FileTree.getItem call counts when expanding folders in a large tree.
This change makes the Expand all folders action in the diff file tree much faster for large trees. The button state updates one microtask after the last tree event. No merge-blocking risk was found.
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Merged current main (no rebase). The only conflict was the DiffFileTree.tsx import block after refactor(web): remove icon morphing #33985 dropped icon morphing; kept main's lucide-react icons and this PR's useSyncExternalStore + subscribeOncePerTask.
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Verified on a testbox: vp run check:changed (format, lint, knip, typecheck, react compiler) passes, and DiffFileTree.browser.test.tsx plus src/components/files browser tests pass (259 tests).
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Head a8475ab827eb, Linux VM, vp run dev web client in Chrome (Playwright), isolated worktree state. Same data on main (f697d4db3e) and the PR: a git repo with 2,000 files in 2,041 folders (src/pkgK/modJ/file.ts), added as a project, and a real Claude claude-haiku-5-5 turn that edited every file. Then Open diff, Show file tree, Collapse all folders, Expand all folders.
Expand all folders, measured in the page from click() to the second frame after it, with the longest long task from a PerformanceObserver:
click to 2nd frame
longest task
main (3 clicks)
1,221 / 1,268 / 1,223 ms
1,202 / 1,248 / 1,206 ms
PR (3 clicks)
292 / 333 / 288 ms
252 / 310 / 266 ms
Through real mouse clicks (Playwright click until the button label flips to "Collapse all folders"): 1,224 ms on main, 216 ms on the PR.
Nearby behavior, same on both:
The button label and icon end in the right state after every Expand all and Collapse all.
Collapsing one folder row in the tree flips the button to "Expand all folders"; re-expanding it flips it back to "Collapse all folders".
Clicking src/pkg0/mod5/file.ts in the tree selects it and scrolls the diff to that file.
The PR Code tab (PullRequestCodeTab), which also renders DiffFileTree: it needs a hosted pull request with thousands of folders. Same component, so the same change applies, but I did not exercise it there.
Desktop (Electron) and production builds: tested the Vite dev web build only.
This PR changes the test suite by +1 test cases (browser +1, unit 0, server 0).
New browser test files: apps/web/src/components/diffs/DiffFileTree.browser.test.tsx.
Each browser test file costs CI seconds of module loading before its first test runs; a unit test costs milliseconds.
Keep tests that would fail for a real reason, and test logic below the UI where it can be. See Testing.
Open each synthetic thread, open Diff → Changes versus Automatic, and show the file tree. At 613, 2,041 and 4,081 folders, perform two recorded warm-ups and five measured repetitions: Collapse all folders, wait 1,500 ms, then invoke Expand all folders using element.click(). Measure click to the second requestAnimationFrame with performance.now() and observe long tasks. Verify every folder collapses and expands, the file count remains correct, and the final button reads “Collapse all folders”.
Environment: same Windows Server 2025 machine, headless Chromium 156.0.8078.4, 1920×1080, dark theme, development builds, one server at a time. Git preview completion precedes timing. Warm-ups remain separately recorded in the JSON and videos.
At every size, the median improvement exceeds the sum of both measured run spreads, and the before/after ranges do not overlap. All 15 measured expansions per commit expanded every folder and ended with “Collapse all folders”. Doubling from 2,041 to 4,081 folders increased the base median 3.88× and the head median 2.05×. At 4,081 folders, the longest measured main-thread task fell from 11,471 ms to 683 ms.
Windows 11 itself was unavailable; both commits were measured on real Windows Server 2025 with Chromium 156, so these are not exact Windows 11 measurements.
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Problem
In the diff panel's file tree, "Expand all folders" holds the main thread for seconds when the diff touches thousands of folders, and the time grows with the square of the folder count. In the browser harness below, one click took 130 ms for a diff with 601 folders, 1.04 s for 2,001 and 4.3 s for 4,001 (medians of 5), all in one long task. The same click with this change took 66 ms, 152 ms and 278 ms.
The cause is in
DiffFileTree. It tracks whether every folder is expanded (for the button's icon and label) withuseFileTreeSelector(model, areAllDirectoriesExpanded(...)). Expanding a folder makes the Pierre tree emit an event, "Expand all folders" expands every folder, and the selector runsareAllDirectoriesExpandedon every event. That function stops at the first collapsed folder, so while the folders open from the top, the k-th event scans k folders: about D^2 / 2 tree lookups for D folders. The test below counts 183,299getItemcalls for 600 folders on main."Collapse all folders" is not affected: the first folder it looks at is already collapsed after the first event.
This is the same pattern as the Files panel's Expand all (the second listener there is the same
useFileTreeSelectorcall). It is a separate component and a separate fix.Change
fileTreeExpansion.tsgetssubscribeOncePerTask(model, listener): it forwards the tree's events but calls the listener once per task (a microtask), however many events the tree emitted in it.DiffFileTree.tsxreads "all folders expanded" with auseSyncExternalStoreover that helper instead ofuseFileTreeSelector.areAllDirectoriesExpandedandsetAllDirectoriesExpandedare unchanged.Behaviour difference: the button's icon and label update one microtask after the tree's last event of a task instead of inside each event. Its value after the last event is the same.
Scope and approval
No issue or discussion exists for this change, and none is linked. It is a performance fix to one component, not a one-line obvious fix, so I'm not claiming the "very small, obvious fix" exception in
CONTRIBUTING.md; if you'd rather have an issue first, I'll open one.Overlap:
subscribeOncePerTaskis written identically to the helper in #31463, the Files panel change (the same function in the same file). Whichever lands second drops its copy; the two changes touch different components.Verification
Rows: https://gist.github.com/Pyseph/b99a073af3fb496d8c446f5a1f94671b (start with
raw--summary.txt; per-click rows inraw--rows.ndjson).How it was measured:
test/whunt-diff.renders.tsx(a new file in therendersbrowser project; not part of this PR) mounts the realDiffPaneland the realDiffFileTree(Pierre tree) in headless Chrome 156 on Windows 11, with the server state atoms stubbed as inDiffPanel.browser.test.tsx. The diff is generated: F files in nested folders (src/pkgK/modJ/fileN.ts, 30 lines each; 600, 2,000 and 4,000 files give 601, 2,001 and 4,001 folders after the tree flattens empty ones). After the tree appears, the harness clicks "Collapse all folders" and "Expand all folders" three times alternately and records click to second frame, and the longest long task (PerformanceObserver). Each cell is the median of the three Expand clicks per process, then the median of 5 processes, with main and this change alternating who goes first, timing lock held, Node 26.12.1. The page is the Vite dev build (React in development mode).Expand all folders, click to second frame, median (min..max) of 5 alternating pairs:
Main grows 8.0x for 3.3x the folders and 4.1x for 2x more (exponent about 2); this change grows 2.3x and 1.8x. What remains is linear work per commit.
New test (
DiffFileTree.browser.test.tsx): 600 folders in two levels, "Collapse all folders" then "Expand all folders" through the real tree, countingFileTree.prototype.getItemcalls during the expansion: 183,299 on main (the test fails:expected 183299 to be less than 12000), 3,000 with this change.vp fmt,vp lintandvp run knip:checkpassed in the pre-commit hook under Node 26.Not checked
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