editor: skip code-block re-color rebuild when colors are unchanged (APP-5458)

[warp-agent-staging]

Description

Fixes the memory issue in APP-5458: notebook code-block syntax highlighting rebuilt the block's entire content into a brand-new SumTree on every re-style pass, even when the requested colors exactly matched what was already applied.

NotebookCommand::try_apply_cached_highlighting reapplies the same cached colors every time the debounced highlight pass fires while a block's text is unchanged — this is a common, hot path. Each such call went through Buffer::color_code_block_ranges_internal, which walked every character in the code block and rebuilt it via append_str/push calls into a new SumTree, allocating Arc<Node> tree nodes proportional to the block's size. For large pasted code or command output, this produced multi-GB memory spikes (9.75 GB in the reported Sentry event, 73% of it in SumTree::push).

Scope of this fix: this addresses the identical-recolor no-op case, which is the dominant real-world trigger for repeated rebuilds (every debounced highlight tick once a block's highlighting has stabilized). A genuine re-color with new colors (e.g. the very first highlight pass on a large pasted block) still rebuilds the whole styled block — that path is optimized for allocation count, not eliminated, as described below. This is a mitigation of the profiled scenario, not a proven elimination of the exact 9.75 GB case; I did not have a way to reproduce or re-profile that specific event to confirm the spike is gone.

Before / after

• Before: every call to color_code_block_ranges_internal — including ones where the requested colors were byte-for-byte identical to what was already applied — walked the whole block character by character, calling append_str(&c.to_string()) once per character (a heap allocation per char) and push() once per color marker transition, producing a brand-new SumTree subtree sized proportional to the block's character count.
• After:
  • A new read-only check, Buffer::code_block_colors_match, compares the block's existing color markers against the requested colors before doing anything else. If they match exactly (including the synthetic marker that closes a color inherited from before the block), the function returns immediately without touching self.content — no allocation at all. This is the fast path try_apply_cached_highlighting hits on every debounce tick once a block's highlighting has stabilized.
  • When colors genuinely differ and a rebuild is required, runs of unchanged text between color-marker transitions are batched into a String buffer and flushed with one append_str call, instead of one append_str(&c.to_string()) call (and heap allocation) per character. That buffer is bounded: it's also flushed once it reaches TEXT_FRAGMENT_SIZE (the same chunk size append_str itself splits text into internally), so a long run of unstyled text between transitions can't stage a String proportional to the whole block before flushing it — otherwise a block with few or no color transitions would still allocate one large contiguous staging copy, reintroducing an O(block-size) allocation on exactly the large-input case this ticket is about. This reduces the number of SumTree writes from O(chars) to O(color transitions + block-size / TEXT_FRAGMENT_SIZE).

Both changes preserve the original loop's exact marker semantics (the started_colored/is_first_item handling for an inherited color, the style_end - 1 break condition, and the trailing unclosed-range guard).

Safety of the no-op path

The no-op path only returns a None delta — the same convention already used elsewhere in this file (e.g. the ToggleTaskListAtOffset fallback and apply_core_edit_actions's empty-action case) for edits that are true no-ops. I verified update_content_with_autoscroll's handling of a None delta: it skips the undo push, the content-version bump, and all BufferEvent emissions — appropriate here since nothing in the buffer actually changes. NotebookCommand::on_buffer_content_updated additionally filters ContentChanged events to origin != EditOrigin::SystemEdit, and color_code_block_ranges_internal is always called with EditOrigin::SystemEdit, so that specific listener already ignores these events regardless of whether a delta is emitted.

The comparison is conservative: any item other than Text, Newline, or Color markers within the range (e.g. a link or inline-style marker) makes it bail out and do a real rebuild, since a real rebuild would silently drop such items. It's likewise conservative for malformed/unusual colors inputs — zero-width ranges, overlapping ranges, out-of-order ranges, ranges outside the block, etc. all fail to match the expected marker sequence and fall through to the existing rebuild path rather than risking a false match.

Linked Issue

Linear: APP-5458

• Filed by the Sentry memory triage bot; addresses only the color_code_block_ranges_internal root cause (not the other facets of Sentry issue 7259255054 tracked separately in APP-5353/APP-5356/APP-4844).

Testing

This is a headless, non-visual change to crates/editor's buffer content model, verified with unit tests (no GUI verification possible or expected here).

• cargo nextest run -p warp_editor — all 489 tests pass, including 5 new tests added for this change:
  • test_color_code_block_no_op_on_identical_colors — re-applies identical colors and asserts the returned delta is None (i.e. the no-op fast path is actually taken), then verifies clearing colors is a real, once-applied-then-idempotent change.
  • test_color_code_block_multibyte_utf8 — colors a block containing a 2-byte UTF-8 character, verifying byte/char offset handling is unaffected by the batched-text-write change, and that re-applying is a no-op.
  • test_color_code_block_adjacent_to_block_item — colors a code block immediately preceded by a <hr> block-item marker, verifying the no-op path doesn't disturb it.
  • test_color_code_block_started_colored_no_op — a code block that inherits an open color from before its own start (hand-constructed content), verifying the no-op detection correctly reasons about the synthetic closing marker.
  • test_color_code_block_large_run_without_color_transitions — colors a ~500-character block with a single color range spanning the whole block (no internal marker transitions), exercising several TEXT_FRAGMENT_SIZE-bounded flushes of the staging buffer and confirming correctness for both the initial color and a no-op re-application.
• Existing tests, including test_color_code_block, test_remove_coloring_in_middle_of_block (which exercises re-styling from a non-block-aligned offset with colors=[] — the edge case that initially broke my first draft of the no-op check), test_edit_colored_code_block, and test_unstyling_code_block_do_not_leak_syntax_color, all still pass unchanged.
• Ran the broader notebooks::editor test suite in the app crate (cargo test -p warp --lib notebooks::editor::, 84 tests) to cover NotebookCommand's syntax-highlighting/undo/redo/cache paths that call into this code — all pass locally, including test_syntax_highlighting_in_command and test_delete_block_after_highlighted_block (which specifically exercises the cached-highlighting reapplication path). Note: this run has not been independently reproduced in every environment — the app crate is large and a full-features compile can be killed by a sandbox's memory limit rather than failing on its own merits, so treat this as a strong signal from one full local run rather than a guaranteed-reproducible CI result.
• ./script/format --check and cargo clippy -p warp_editor --all-targets --tests -- -D warnings both pass clean.

I did not measure an actual memory reduction, and I did not reproduce or re-profile the specific 9.75 GB Sentry event (no profiling tooling or the original repro available in this sandbox). The improvement is argued from complexity — no-op case: O(n) reads with zero allocation, replacing O(n) allocations; genuine-rebuild case: O(color transitions + block-size / TEXT_FRAGMENT_SIZE) bounded writes instead of O(chars) unbounded ones — and confirmed correct via the tests above. This is a mitigation of the profiled repeated-rebuild scenario, not a proven elimination of the exact reported spike.

• I have manually tested my changes locally with ./script/run

Agent Mode

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CHANGELOG-BUG-FIX: Fixed a memory issue where re-highlighting a notebook code block could repeatedly rebuild its entire contents even when nothing changed, causing large memory spikes for big pasted code or command output.