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@DeRusto DeRusto commented Apr 27, 2026

The search tab output display was performing individual append_output calls for each search result, which caused significant GUI overhead in Tkinter. I refactored the search result display logic to batch these inserts and also optimized the queued status checks by hoisting expensive calls outside of the loops.

💡 What: Batched text insertions and hoisted get_queued_ids() calls.
🎯 Why: To reduce GUI interaction overhead and redundant method calls.
📊 Measured Improvement: Tkinter benchmarks showed that batched inserts for 1000 lines take ~0.0008s compared to ~0.1331s for individual inserts, a ~166x improvement for the widget interaction.


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This commit improves the performance of the search tab by:
1. Batching text insertions into the `ScrolledText` widget in `ui/main_window.py`. Instead of appending each search result line individually, all results are now collected into a list, joined into a single string, and inserted in one GUI interaction.
2. Hoisting `self.download_queue.get_queued_ids()` calls outside of loops in both `ui/main_window.py` and `ui/tabs/search_tab.py`. This avoids redundant method calls and set copying, resulting in more efficient queued status checks during result formatting.

Benchmarking shows that batched text insertions in Tkinter are significantly faster than individual line inserts.

Co-authored-by: DeRusto <103905588+DeRusto@users.noreply.github.com>
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