l0ng-aiandClaude Opus 5 3fd523e1b9 feat(diff): make the sidebar diff preview optional and bound its cost
Clicking a sidebar row's `+N −N` opens the working-tree diff overlay. On a big
tree that could stall the window, and not everyone wants an in-app diff viewer
in the first place.

Two halves, matching the report.

The setting: `sidebar_diff_preview` (Settings → Window & Tabs, on by default,
persisted in `config.json`). Off, the branch and the counts stay exactly where
they are and read exactly the same; they lose only the pointer cursor and the
`toggle_diff_overlay` handler, so the press falls through to ordinary tab
activation. Both come off one value — `diff_click_cwd` — so they cannot get out
of step.

The performance work. All five of the reporter's hypotheses held up against
v26.7.6, and each fix is measured on a 300-file / 90 000-line / 4.5 MB diff
(release, macOS arm64):

1. The full diff was buffered before parsing — `git_status::git` uses
   `Command::output()`. Now streamed line by line through the new
   `git_status::git_lines` into an incremental `DiffParser`: peak transient
   buffer 4 552 060 bytes → 50 bytes, at ~1.7× the parse CPU (3.97 ms →
   6.76 ms) on the background thread, where it never touches a frame.

2. The snapshot was deep-cloned per holder inside `this.update`, i.e. on the
   UI thread. Now shared behind `Arc`: 2.41 ms → 11 ns per holder.

3. The element tree is not virtualized — confirmed, not cured. Rendering is not
   being redesigned here; instead the element count is bounded (see 4) and
   `MAX_RENDERED_FILES` caps the cards built at all, with a "… and N more" line
   for the tail.

4. Auto-collapse was per file, and counted only +/− while the rendered body
   also has context lines. Added `AUTO_COLLAPSE_TOTAL_LINES` over *retained*
   lines: sixty forty-line files, none individually large, went from 2400
   side-by-side rows to zero, under a summary saying the diff is too large to
   render efficiently and pointing at expanding individual files or `git diff`.

5. The Changes panel probed independently and kept its own snapshot. Both now
   go through `spawn_shared_diff_probe`, which dedupes by cwd and installs one
   `Arc` into every watcher; opening the overlay while the panel already shows
   that repo now paints from the panel's snapshot instead of re-probing.

Plus a repo-wide retention budget (`MAX_TOTAL_LINES`, `MAX_FILES_WITH_HUNKS`):
90 000 lines / 6.2 MiB of line text → 20 000 / 1.2 MiB. The `+N −N` totals
deliberately escape every cap — they are compared against `--numstat` to detect
staleness, so a capped total would disagree forever and re-probe in a loop.

Small diffs are untouched: a forty-file, twelve-lines-each tree is not
oversized and still opens expanded, asserted directly.

Not verified: anything requiring the GUI. No frame timings, no visual check of
the oversized banner or the settings row, and `AUTO_COLLAPSE_TOTAL_LINES` is a
judgement call anchored on row count rather than a measured frame budget.

Refs #239.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-29 16:10:46 +08:00

tty7

tty7

A terminal workbench: shells, sessions, SSH, coding agents.

Pure Rust · GPU rendering on Zed's gpui · VT core from Alacritty


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Why

  • Fast — ~2× the throughput of Alacritty, Ghostty, or Kitty (benchmarks)
  • Sessions persist — quit or reboot; your shells keep running, no tmux
  • Editor-grade input — completion, syntax highlighting, history search built in; zero config for zsh, bash, fish, PowerShell
  • Agent-aware — recognizes Claude Code & co. in a pane: status, notifications, session resume

Install

Native builds for each platform on Releases:

macOS …-macos-arm64.dmg · …-x86_64.dmg drag into Applications
Windows …-setup.exe · portable ….zip
Linux …-x86_64.AppImage chmod +x and run — x11/wayland libs bundled

What's inside

Input ghost suggestions from history · explained tab completion · syntax highlighting · multi-line editing · click places the caret · ⌃ R fuzzy history
Window tabs & splits · ⌘ P palette · ⌘ F scrollback search · nine themes · IME
Coding agents per-pane agent detection (~17 CLIs): status dot, notifications, branch + diff, resume after reboot, tray icon that signals "needs your input"
SSH native russh stack: profiles with keychain secrets, SFTP panel, port forwarding, jump hosts

Details for every row: docs/features.md. Keybindings: ⌘ , opens Settings — browse and remap everything, tmux preset included (full list).

Benchmarks

Same machine, same day, same 155×40 grid — Apple M1 Pro, macOS 26.3.1, five-run averages (2026-07-04):

tty7 Alacritty Ghostty Kitty
Plaintext IO — 11 MB cat (lower = better) 95 ms 239 ms 179 ms 185 ms
DOOM-fire frame rate (higher = better) 888 fps 485 fps 552 fps 617 fps
Cold-launch memory 116 MB¹ 105 MB 128 MB 130 MB

¹ GUI 105 MB + the persistent daemon 11 MB.

Methodology and one-command reproduction: scripts/bench/.


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