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⚡ Performance: Memoize findWindowIdForFolder with WeakMap cache - #75

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💡 What:

  • Introduced a WeakMap<SpaceStore, Map<FolderId, number>> to cache the folder-to-windowId mapping for a given store instance.
  • Changed the queue-based Breadth-First Search (BFS) mapping function which was using the notoriously slow $O(N)$ queue.shift() array method, to a stack-based Depth-First Search (DFS) which uses the much faster $O(1)$ stack.pop() array method.

🎯 Why:
There was an explicit anti-pattern within findWindowIdForFolder. It was doing a recursive BFS over every space root from scratch, and it lacked memoization. This function was being called recursively from findWindowIdForItem which itself iterated across the whole set of folders. This resulted in extreme scaling complexity whenever there was a large folder nesting depth and higher quantities of spaces.

📊 Measured Improvement:
In a local benchmark modeling 100 spaces and 100 folders each iteratively:

  • Baseline (findWindowIdForItem original without memoization): ~397.45ms
  • Optimized (findWindowIdForItem WeakMap cache + stack DFS): ~84.22ms
  • Measured Gain: ~4.7x faster performance.

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…ate queue.shift()

Refactored `findWindowIdForFolder` to build and cache a complete map of `FolderId -> windowId`
using a `WeakMap` bound to the `store` instance. This eliminates the $O(S \times N)$ space iteration
nested inside other loops (like `findWindowIdForItem` which itself iterates over all $F$ folders), turning
subsequent lookups into $O(1)$. Also replaced the $O(N)$ `queue.shift()` BFS implementation
with a much faster $O(1)$ stack-based DFS traversal. Benchmark time dropped from ~400ms down to ~85ms.

Co-authored-by: matuyuhi <92073990+matuyuhi@users.noreply.github.com>
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