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Description
Reduce heavy chat rendering work for markdown, code blocks, tool-call displays, and high-latency chat navigation.
Add stress fixtures for pathological markdown, tool-call, streaming-code, and ~1M-context chat workloads.
scripts/renderer-stress-cases.test.mjs Vitest coverage for stress fixture generation.
Changed
Code blocks mount CodeMirror only when editing, and use lighter rendering for large or streaming blocks.
Tool-call display work is memoized and delayed so collapsed calls avoid nested markdown parsing and eager result decoding.
Chat loading parallelizes independent metadata probes and discards stale navigation loads.
Frontend test script now runs Vitest non-interactively with vitest run --passWithNoTests.
Deprecated
None.
Removed
None.
Fixed
Reduced UI stalls caused by eager markdown/highlighting/tool-call work in large chat histories and high-latency browser sessions.
Security
None.
Breaking Changes
None.
Additional Information
This PR was prepared by an autonomous AI coding agent at a user's request. Please review it as an ordinary external contribution; no maintainer affiliation is implied.
Built a local Open WebUI container image from this branch with USE_SLIM=true and verified /health on a live local deployment.
Review notes:
CodeMirror still mounts for edit mode.
Large or actively streaming code blocks intentionally skip expensive highlighting.
Tool-call payload parsing remains available, but is memoized and delayed.
Screenshots or Videos
Not included; this is a renderer/runtime performance change with script fixtures and local health validation.
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## 📋 Pull Request Information
**Original PR:** https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/pull/24951
**Author:** [@noufalkv](https://github.com/noufalkv)
**Created:** 5/20/2026
**Status:** ❌ Closed
**Base:** `dev` ← **Head:** `perf/tor-chat-rendering`
---
### 📝 Commits (3)
- [`1d2ccce`](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/commit/1d2ccce0047d1db52b20d6b3c520e551db883b94) perf(renderer): reduce markdown and tool-call mount cost
- [`40346ff`](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/commit/40346ff482c016e99c5d0ce9838f45059f1291aa) test(renderer): add pathological chat stress fixtures
- [`d1f1c51`](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/commit/d1f1c513f3fee6466239bd066facd12254457d4b) perf(chat): reduce high-latency load stalls
### 📊 Changes
**8 files changed** (+555 additions, -119 deletions)
<details>
<summary>View changed files</summary>
📝 `package.json` (+1 -1)
➕ `scripts/renderer-stress-cases.mjs` (+237 -0)
➕ `scripts/renderer-stress-cases.test.mjs` (+36 -0)
📝 `src/lib/components/chat/Chat.svelte` (+41 -21)
📝 `src/lib/components/chat/Messages/CodeBlock.svelte` (+86 -7)
📝 `src/lib/components/chat/Messages/Markdown/MarkdownTokens.svelte` (+75 -68)
📝 `src/lib/components/common/ToolCallDisplay.svelte` (+76 -19)
📝 `src/routes/+layout.svelte` (+3 -3)
</details>
### 📄 Description
# Pull Request Checklist
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- [x] **Architecture:** Smart defaults are preferred over new settings. Local state is used for ephemeral UI logic. Major architectural or UX changes have been discussed first.
- [x] **Git Hygiene:** The PR is atomic (one logical change), rebased on `dev`, and contains no unrelated commits.
- [x] **Title Prefix:** The PR title uses one of the listed prefixes.
# Changelog Entry
### Description
- Reduce heavy chat rendering work for markdown, code blocks, tool-call displays, and high-latency chat navigation.
- Add stress fixtures for pathological markdown, tool-call, streaming-code, and ~1M-context chat workloads.
### Added
- `scripts/renderer-stress-cases.mjs` fixture generator.
- `scripts/renderer-stress-cases.test.mjs` Vitest coverage for stress fixture generation.
### Changed
- Code blocks mount CodeMirror only when editing, and use lighter rendering for large or streaming blocks.
- Tool-call display work is memoized and delayed so collapsed calls avoid nested markdown parsing and eager result decoding.
- Chat loading parallelizes independent metadata probes and discards stale navigation loads.
- Frontend test script now runs Vitest non-interactively with `vitest run --passWithNoTests`.
### Deprecated
- None.
### Removed
- None.
### Fixed
- Reduced UI stalls caused by eager markdown/highlighting/tool-call work in large chat histories and high-latency browser sessions.
### Security
- None.
### Breaking Changes
- None.
---
### Additional Information
This PR was prepared by an autonomous AI coding agent at a user's request. Please review it as an ordinary external contribution; no maintainer affiliation is implied.
Validation performed:
- `git diff --check origin/dev...HEAD`
- Svelte compiler smoke checks for:
- `src/lib/components/chat/Chat.svelte`
- `src/routes/+layout.svelte`
- `src/lib/components/chat/Messages/CodeBlock.svelte`
- `src/lib/components/chat/Messages/Markdown/MarkdownTokens.svelte`
- `src/lib/components/common/ToolCallDisplay.svelte`
- `npm run test:frontend`
- Built a local Open WebUI container image from this branch with `USE_SLIM=true` and verified `/health` on a live local deployment.
Review notes:
- CodeMirror still mounts for edit mode.
- Large or actively streaming code blocks intentionally skip expensive highlighting.
- Tool-call payload parsing remains available, but is memoized and delayed.
### Screenshots or Videos
- Not included; this is a renderer/runtime performance change with script fixtures and local health validation.
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📋 Pull Request Information
Original PR: https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/pull/24951
Author: @noufalkv
Created: 5/20/2026
Status: ❌ Closed
Base:
dev← Head:perf/tor-chat-rendering📝 Commits (3)
1d2ccceperf(renderer): reduce markdown and tool-call mount cost40346fftest(renderer): add pathological chat stress fixturesd1f1c51perf(chat): reduce high-latency load stalls📊 Changes
8 files changed (+555 additions, -119 deletions)
View changed files
📝
package.json(+1 -1)➕
scripts/renderer-stress-cases.mjs(+237 -0)➕
scripts/renderer-stress-cases.test.mjs(+36 -0)📝
src/lib/components/chat/Chat.svelte(+41 -21)📝
src/lib/components/chat/Messages/CodeBlock.svelte(+86 -7)📝
src/lib/components/chat/Messages/Markdown/MarkdownTokens.svelte(+75 -68)📝
src/lib/components/common/ToolCallDisplay.svelte(+76 -19)📝
src/routes/+layout.svelte(+3 -3)📄 Description
Pull Request Checklist
Note to first-time contributors: Please open a discussion post in Discussions to discuss your idea/fix with the community before creating a pull request, and describe your changes before submitting a pull request.
This is to ensure large feature PRs are discussed with the community first, before starting work on it. If the community does not want this feature or it is not relevant for Open WebUI as a project, it can be identified in the discussion before working on the feature and submitting the PR.
Before submitting, make sure you've checked the following:
Closes #___/Relates to #24949. If one does not exist, create one first. PRs without a linked issue or discussion may be closed without review.devbranch. PRs targetingmainwill be immediately closed.dev, and contains no unrelated commits.Changelog Entry
Description
Added
scripts/renderer-stress-cases.mjsfixture generator.scripts/renderer-stress-cases.test.mjsVitest coverage for stress fixture generation.Changed
vitest run --passWithNoTests.Deprecated
Removed
Fixed
Security
Breaking Changes
Additional Information
This PR was prepared by an autonomous AI coding agent at a user's request. Please review it as an ordinary external contribution; no maintainer affiliation is implied.
Validation performed:
git diff --check origin/dev...HEADsrc/lib/components/chat/Chat.sveltesrc/routes/+layout.sveltesrc/lib/components/chat/Messages/CodeBlock.sveltesrc/lib/components/chat/Messages/Markdown/MarkdownTokens.sveltesrc/lib/components/common/ToolCallDisplay.sveltenpm run test:frontendUSE_SLIM=trueand verified/healthon a live local deployment.Review notes:
Screenshots or Videos
Contributor License Agreement
🔄 This issue represents a GitHub Pull Request. It cannot be merged through Gitea due to API limitations.