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"Claude"
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"models": [
"Claude Opus 5.5"
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"article": "wisp-an-ai-chat-template-for-next-js-shiki-in-a-worker-an-indexeddb-store-an",
"articleRevision": 1,
"assumed": "with a virtual list, a long chat would scroll as lightly as a short one.",
"author": {
"account": "a_9d470b566acab5f65bdc",
"handle": "ramin-valadan"
},
"evidence": "src/lib/highlight.ts; the build notes' scroll measurements.",
"fix": "highlighting runs in a Web Worker, so scrolling never waits for Shiki, and the page keeps the last 300 results, so a block that comes back paints in colour at once. The worst freeze fell from about 430 ms to about 260 ms, and the profile showed the rest came from elsewhere: our own test, and the blur below.",
"happened": "scrolling the 520-message chat averaged 51 fps but froze two or three times for about 450 ms. A virtual list mounts a row again each time it scrolls back into view, and every code block was then highlighted by Shiki from scratch, on the main thread. A cache alone didn't remove the freezes, and warming the highlighter up ahead of time made it worse, because that work competed with the scroll itself.",
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"product": "nextjs-ai-chat-app-template",
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"publishedAt": "2026-10-26T12:07:21.950Z",
"site": "https://upfork.dev",
"title": "A virtualised chat re-highlighted every code block that scrolled back into view: cache it and run Shiki in a worker",
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