🤖 perf: fix shimmer animation frame drops during compaction #980
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Use CSS transform animation (compositor thread) instead of background-position (main thread repaint) to prevent frame drops when compaction summary is streaming.
Changes
translateXtransform instead ofbackground-positionshimmer-slidekeyframes to globals.css (runs on compositor thread)StreamingCompactionstory to visualize the effectWhy this fixes frame drops
CSS
transformanimations run on the GPU compositor thread, completely off the main JavaScript thread. This matters during streaming when the main thread is busy with React updates and text parsing. In contrast,background-positiontriggers repaints on every frame.Generated with
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