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First look at a performance problem

What to measure before changing anything.

  • performance
  • profiling
  • diagnosis

The prompt

Something is slow: {{symptom}}. My current guess is {{suspicion}}.

Before I change anything, tell me what to measure and how — the specific numbers
that would confirm or kill that guess. Then list two other explanations that fit
the same symptom, with a cheap check for each.

Do not suggest optimisations yet. If my guess is the obvious one, say what would
make it wrong.

What to fill in

{{symptom}}
What's slow — e.g. the overlay takes ~400ms to appear
{{suspicion}}
Your current suspicion — e.g. SwiftUI rebuilding the whole tree per open

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