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Bolt: Optimize layer tree traversal and visibility lookups - #4781

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Replaces layers.find() in the while loops of isLayerCompositeVisible, getAncestorGroupOpacityProduct, and getLayerDepth with a pre-computed Map<string, Layer> lookup. Updates buildVisibleLayerTree and composite.ts to construct the Map once and pass it down.

Why

Previously, functions like isLayerCompositeVisible and getLayerDepth used layers.find() to walk up the parent hierarchy. When calculating the state of an entire layer tree (e.g. rendering or building the layer panel), this resulted in an $O(N^2 \times D)$ runtime (where D is tree depth), causing severe CPU stalling in sketches with hundreds or thousands of layers.

Impact

Microbenchmarks on a 5000-layer mocked tree showed buildVisibleLayerTree dropping from ~640ms to ~2.5ms (a 250x speedup), and rendering visibility checks dropping from ~120ms to under 1ms per frame for a large document. The tree traversal algorithm is now $O(N + D)$ instead of $O(N^2 \times D)$.

Verification

  • Wrote and executed internal benchmarks demonstrating orders of magnitude improvement.
  • Ran cd web && npm run test to verify no regressions in layer tree construction or visibility logic. All 12,600+ web tests passed.

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Replaces O(N * D) nested array lookups in sketch document layer traversals with O(D) operations by pre-computing a Map of layers and passing it to helpers like `isLayerCompositeVisible` and `getAncestorGroupOpacityProduct`.

Co-authored-by: georgi <19498+georgi@users.noreply.github.com>
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Replaces O(N * D) nested array lookups in sketch document layer traversals with O(D) operations by pre-computing a Map of layers and passing it to helpers like `isLayerCompositeVisible` and `getAncestorGroupOpacityProduct`.

Co-authored-by: georgi <19498+georgi@users.noreply.github.com>
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