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Large-project builds can make the editor UI stutter, freeze, and eventually restart with an OutOfMemoryError; the reporter reproduced it with Xed-Editor while the default Compose template remained stable. The latest stack trace anchors the allocation failure in BuildOutputFragment.processLogs, where an unlimited channel is drained into an unbounded StringBuilder. Although BuildOutputViewModel now stores output in a file and limits restored/cached content to a 512 KiB tail, the live editor still appends every processed line for the duration of a build. The fix must bound both pending batches and the live editor document without changing the build-service-to-fragment call path.

Summary

Introduce a small production-consumed BuildOutputBuffer that accepts the fragment's incoming strings, emits size-limited batches in order, and enforces a fixed pending-output budget; when a producer burst exceeds that budget, coalesce the dropped count into one explicit omission marker rather than retaining an unlimited backlog. Update BuildOutputFragment to consume those bounded batches, keep the existing session-generation checks, and replace the live editor content with the filtered tail from BuildOutputViewModel whenever appending would exceed the editor window instead of allowing the Sora document to grow for the whole build. Move the editor-window limit into an internal BuildOutputViewModel contract used by both file-tail reads and the fragment so restore and live-stream behavior cannot diverge.

Test plan

  • A burst whose total size is below the pending and batch limits is emitted in original order, with missing trailing newlines normalized exactly once.
  • Input larger than one batch is split across bounded batches without duplicating or reordering retained lines, and no emitted batch grows beyond the limit except for one indivisible oversized input line handled according to the documented cap policy.
  • When producers exceed the pending-output budget, memory stays bounded and the next consumed output contains a single omission marker with the accumulated dropped-line count before normal ordered output resumes.
  • Repeated live batches that cross the 512 KiB editor limit trigger a tail refresh; the visible document remains within the shared window limit and ends with the newest build output.
  • Clearing for a new build resets queued output, overflow accounting, and visible-window accounting so stale lines or omission markers cannot enter the new session.
  • Filtering and timestamp/delta visibility are applied to the refreshed tail just as they are to ordinary live batches, while the session file remains the source for the unfiltered retained output.

Fixes #1367

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Review Change Stack

📝 Summary
  • Bound live build output memory with thread-safe BuildOutputBuffer batching.
  • Limit pending output and retain the newest output when overflow occurs.
  • Report dropped lines with localized omission markers.
  • Preserve output order and session-generation checks.
  • Coordinate editor restore and live updates with mutexes and content-generation checks.
  • Refresh the editor with a filtered tail when output exceeds the shared window limit.
  • Reset editor counters during view destruction.
  • Add tests for batching, overflow, clearing, session handling, and tail filtering.
  • Risk: Asynchronous buffering and editor refresh changes may affect output timing or stale-update handling.
  • Risk: Build output may be omitted when the configured memory or editor-window limits are exceeded.

Walkthrough

The build output pipeline now uses bounded buffering, session tokens, and guarded editor rendering. Output is persisted before buffering. Stale writes and asynchronous editor updates are rejected. Filtering and window restoration use bounded snapshots.

Changes

Build output pipeline

Layer / File(s) Summary
Bounded output buffering
app/src/main/java/com/itsaky/androidide/fragments/output/BuildOutputBuffer.kt, resources/src/main/res/values/strings.xml, app/src/test/java/com/itsaky/androidide/fragments/output/BuildOutputBufferTest.kt
Adds bounded, synchronized output storage with newline normalization, ordered session-tagged batches, omission markers, clearing, availability notifications, localized formatting, and coverage for buffering behavior.
Session validation and window refresh
app/src/main/java/com/itsaky/androidide/viewmodel/BuildOutputViewModel.kt
Adds session tokens and stale-write rejection inside the file lock. It also replaces tail fitting with editor refresh character calculations and caps cached snapshots.
Session-safe rendering integration
app/src/main/java/com/itsaky/androidide/fragments/output/BuildOutputFragment.kt
Persists output before buffering, restores windows before processing logs, guards asynchronous rendering by generation and session, and continues processing after non-cancellation batch failures.

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to b42c8

This change bounds live build-output memory, but large build logs can be truncated in the refreshed editor and when shared or copied. In addition, restoring output before the editor is laid out can crash the output view; these issues should be resolved before merge.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant BuildOutputFragment
  participant BuildOutputViewModel
  participant BuildOutputBuffer
  participant Editor
  BuildOutputFragment->>BuildOutputViewModel: persist output with session token
  BuildOutputViewModel-->>BuildOutputFragment: return append success
  BuildOutputFragment->>BuildOutputBuffer: queue current-session output
  BuildOutputBuffer-->>BuildOutputFragment: provide bounded batch
  BuildOutputFragment->>BuildOutputViewModel: validate session and refresh window
  BuildOutputFragment->>Editor: apply current-generation content
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Suggested reviewers: dara-abijo-adfa, hal-eisen-adfa

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I’m a rabbit guarding each build line,
Bounded batches move in time.
Stale writes leave the session gate,
Fresh windows render at a steady rate.
Clear paths keep the buffer light.

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Docstring Coverage ⚠️ Warning Docstring coverage is 26.19% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 42 functions across 4 files. (1 skipped: … Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.
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Check name Status Explanation
Linked Issues check ✅ Passed The changes address issue [#1367] by bounding live build-output memory, limiting editor content, and preventing unbounded accumulation that can cause UI freezes and OutOfMemoryError failures.
Out of Scope Changes check ✅ Passed The buffer, fragment, ViewModel, tests, and localized omission-marker resource all support the stated memory-bounding objective. No unrelated code changes are evident.
Description check ✅ Passed The description clearly explains the live build-output memory problem, the bounded buffering solution, the editor refresh behavior, and the test plan. It directly matches the changeset.
Title check ✅ Passed The title, "fix: Bound live build output memory," is concise and accurately identifies the primary change in the pull request.
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Actionable comments posted: 7

🧹 Nitpick comments (5)
app/src/main/java/com/itsaky/androidide/fragments/output/BuildOutputFragment.kt (2)

79-83: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Document the threading invariant for these counters.

@Volatile gives visibility but not atomicity. Every update in this file uses +=, which is a read-modify-write. The code is correct only because all writes happen on the main thread (lines 138-139, 326-327, 345-346, 359-360, 388-389, 457, 487-488, 501-502, 513-514), while line 445 performs a read from a background dispatcher.

That invariant is load-bearing and not visible at the declaration. Add a short comment. If a future change writes from a background dispatcher, switch to AtomicInteger.

As per coding guidelines: "Use short comments only for non-obvious reasons, workarounds, constraints, or subtle invariants."

📝 Proposed comment
+	// Written only on the main thread; `+=` is not atomic. Read from background dispatchers,
+	// hence `@Volatile`.
 	`@Volatile`
 	private var visibleEditorChars = 0
+
 	`@Volatile`
 	private var editorSourceChars = 0
🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
Verify each finding against current code. Fix only still-valid issues, skip the
rest with a brief reason, keep changes minimal, and validate.

In
`@app/src/main/java/com/itsaky/androidide/fragments/output/BuildOutputFragment.kt`
around lines 79 - 83, Add a short comment above visibleEditorChars and
editorSourceChars documenting that all writes occur on the main thread, while
background work only reads them, so their volatile read-modify-write updates
remain safe. Note that any future background-thread writes must use
AtomicInteger.

Source: Coding guidelines


350-367: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

The launch plus join() is redundant and the comment is misleading.

This block already runs on the main thread inside the withContext(Dispatchers.Main) at line 335. It launches a child coroutine on the same dispatcher and then calls job.join() at line 366, so the caller waits for it. The append is not deferred. The comment at line 351 states the opposite.

The child uses viewLifecycleOwner.lifecycleScope, but the parent at line 101 uses the same scope, so the cancellation behavior is identical. Call awaitLayout inline.

Note the equivalent branch in flushToEditor at lines 507-519 launches without joining, so it is genuinely deferred. Align the two paths or document why they differ.

♻️ Proposed simplification
 				} else {
-					// Timeout: defer append until layout is ready so content is not lost
-					val job =
-						viewLifecycleOwner.lifecycleScope.launch(Dispatchers.Main) {
-							editor.run {
-								awaitLayout(onForceVisible = { updateEmptyState(isSourceEmpty = false, isFilterActive = isFilterActive) })
-								editorContentMutex.withLock {
-									if (isRestoreCurrent()) {
-										appendBatch(content)
-										visibleEditorChars += content.length
-										editorSourceChars = window.length
-										updateEmptyState(isSourceEmpty = false, isFilterActive = isFilterActive)
-									}
-								}
-							}
-						}
-					job.join()
+					// Layout timed out; keep waiting so the restored content is not lost.
+					editor.awaitLayout(onForceVisible = { updateEmptyState(isSourceEmpty = false, isFilterActive = isFilterActive) })
+					editorContentMutex.withLock {
+						if (isRestoreCurrent()) {
+							editor.appendBatch(content)
+							visibleEditorChars += content.length
+							editorSourceChars = window.length
+							updateEmptyState(isSourceEmpty = false, isFilterActive = isFilterActive)
+						}
+					}
 				}
🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
Verify each finding against current code. Fix only still-valid issues, skip the
rest with a brief reason, keep changes minimal, and validate.

In
`@app/src/main/java/com/itsaky/androidide/fragments/output/BuildOutputFragment.kt`
around lines 350 - 367, In the timeout branch containing `awaitLayout`, remove
the child `viewLifecycleOwner.lifecycleScope.launch(Dispatchers.Main)` and its
`job.join()`, and call `awaitLayout` plus the mutex-protected append inline
within the existing main-thread context. Update the misleading timeout comment
to describe the actual behavior, while preserving the `isRestoreCurrent()` guard
and state updates.
app/src/test/java/com/itsaky/androidide/fragments/output/BuildOutputBufferTest.kt (2)

132-179: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | 🏗️ Heavy lift

These two tests re-implement the production algorithm instead of calling it.

Both tests copy the append-or-refresh decision loop from BuildOutputFragment.flushToEditor into the test body. They assert that the local copy behaves as expected. They do not execute BuildOutputFragment. If the fragment logic changes, these tests still pass. The only production code they cover is wouldExceedEditorWindow and filterLines.

The refresh branch in BuildOutputFragment is the core of this memory fix and currently has no direct test.

Extract the decision into a pure function on BuildOutputViewModel (for example nextEditorWindow(visible, sourceChars, batch)), call it from both flushToEditor and these tests. Then the tests bind to production behavior.

Both tests also live in BuildOutputBufferTest but exercise BuildOutputViewModel. Move them to a BuildOutputViewModelTest class.

As per coding guidelines: "Use unit tests for non-UI logic, cover error and edge paths, and target at least 50% line and branch coverage for new or changed non-UI code."

🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
Verify each finding against current code. Fix only still-valid issues, skip the
rest with a brief reason, keep changes minimal, and validate.

In
`@app/src/test/java/com/itsaky/androidide/fragments/output/BuildOutputBufferTest.kt`
around lines 132 - 179, Extract the append-or-refresh logic from
BuildOutputFragment.flushToEditor into a pure BuildOutputViewModel function such
as nextEditorWindow(visible, sourceChars, batch), preserving bounded-tail
refresh behavior and source-character tracking. Update flushToEditor and both
tests to call this production function directly, then move the tests from
BuildOutputBufferTest into BuildOutputViewModelTest.

Source: Coding guidelines


105-116: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Strengthen this test so it verifies the retainedChars reset.

With maxPendingChars = 4, the input "kept" normalizes to 5 characters. BuildOutputBuffer.offer rejects it and records an omission marker, so nothing is ever retained. The test then passes without exercising the retainedChars = 0 reset in clear().

Use a limit that retains "kept". Then clear() must reset the accounting for "new" to be retained. Also assert pendingChars after the clear.

💚 Proposed fixture change
-			val buffer = BuildOutputBuffer(maxPendingChars = 4, maxBatchChars = 64)
+			val buffer = BuildOutputBuffer(maxPendingChars = 8, maxBatchChars = 64)
 
 			buffer.offer("kept")
 			buffer.offer("dropped")
 			buffer.clear()
+			assertEquals(0, buffer.pendingChars)
 			buffer.offer("new")
 
 			assertEquals("new\n", buffer.takeBatch().text)
🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
Verify each finding against current code. Fix only still-valid issues, skip the
rest with a brief reason, keep changes minimal, and validate.

In
`@app/src/test/java/com/itsaky/androidide/fragments/output/BuildOutputBufferTest.kt`
around lines 105 - 116, Update the `clear resets pending output and overflow
accounting` test to use a `maxPendingChars` value that retains the normalized
`"kept"` input, ensuring `clear()` exercises the retained character accounting
reset. After `clear()` and offering `"new"`, assert `pendingChars` reflects only
the new content and retain the existing batch text assertion.
app/src/main/java/com/itsaky/androidide/viewmodel/BuildOutputViewModel.kt (1)

89-100: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Document the isCurrentSession contract in the KDoc.

The new parameter changes the contract of append. Callers must know two things: the callback runs on Dispatchers.IO while the file lock is held, and a false result discards the text silently without an error.

The placement of the check inside lock.withLock is correct. It closes the race against clear(), which takes the same lock.

As per coding guidelines: "Public classes, functions, and non-obvious logic must have KDoc or Javadoc documenting contracts, rationale, threading, nullability, side effects, or units."

📝 Proposed KDoc update
 	/**
 	 * Appends text to the session file. File I/O is performed on a background dispatcher; call from
 	 * any thread. Prefer calling before switching to Main so disk write does not block the UI.
+	 *
+	 * `@param` isCurrentSession Evaluated on [Dispatchers.IO] while the session-file lock is held.
+	 *   Return `false` to discard [text] without writing, for example after a new build cleared the
+	 *   session. The call then completes silently.
 	 */
🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
Verify each finding against current code. Fix only still-valid issues, skip the
rest with a brief reason, keep changes minimal, and validate.

In `@app/src/main/java/com/itsaky/androidide/viewmodel/BuildOutputViewModel.kt`
around lines 89 - 100, Update the KDoc for BuildOutputViewModel.append to
document that isCurrentSession executes on Dispatchers.IO while lock.withLock is
held, and that returning false silently discards the text without writing or
reporting an error. Preserve the existing lock placement and threading guidance.

Source: Coding guidelines

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Verify each finding against current code. Fix only still-valid issues, skip the
rest with a brief reason, keep changes minimal, and validate.

Inline comments:
In
`@app/src/main/java/com/itsaky/androidide/fragments/output/BuildOutputBuffer.kt`:
- Line 140: Update BuildOutputBuffer.omissionMarker to use singular wording when
lineCount is 1 and plural wording otherwise, preserving the existing marker
format; update the corresponding BuildOutputBufferTest expectation. Move the
marker text into strings.xml as a plurals resource and retrieve the correctly
pluralized value through the existing Android resource access pattern.

In
`@app/src/main/java/com/itsaky/androidide/fragments/output/BuildOutputFragment.kt`:
- Around line 461-479: Move the `getWindowForEditor()` I/O and filtering in the
`refreshEditorWindow` branch outside `editorContentMutex`, then re-acquire the
mutex only to apply the computed `refreshedWindow` through the existing
generation check. Keep `renderFiltered` and `flushToEditor` able to proceed
while the window is read and processed, preserving the current filtering and
editor-update behavior.
- Around line 481-483: In the flushToEditor main-thread block, move
updateEmptyState(isSourceEmpty = false, isFilterActive = isFilterActive) to
after the editorGen != editorContentGeneration guard. Ensure stale flushes
return before changing the empty state, while current-generation flushes retain
the existing update.
- Around line 309-348: Gate live batch consumption on restoration completion so
restoreWindowFromViewModel finishes before processLogs consumes queued output.
Add or complete the restoreComplete synchronization signal, ensure
restoreWindowFromViewModel signals it in a finally block on every exit path, and
make processLogs await that signal before processing batches. Preserve
isRestoreCurrent() as the duplication guard rather than allowing a concurrent
batch to invalidate and discard the restored window.
- Around line 418-424: Update processLogs to handle failures independently for
each batch: wrap flushToEditor in per-iteration exception handling, rethrow
CancellationException, and catch only the non-cancellation exception types that
flushToEditor can raise. Log the failure through the fragment’s existing SLF4J
logger, or add one if absent, then continue processing subsequent batches.

In `@app/src/main/java/com/itsaky/androidide/viewmodel/BuildOutputViewModel.kt`:
- Around line 114-121: Decouple the editor display window from the in-memory
append cache in BuildOutputViewModel: update getWindowForEditor/readTailFromFile
at lines 114-121 to decode only the required tail, and update the
cachedContentSnapshot append logic at lines 282-283 to use a separate, smaller
cache limit. Preserve tail ordering and the existing empty-content behavior.

In
`@app/src/test/java/com/itsaky/androidide/fragments/output/BuildOutputBufferTest.kt`:
- Around line 22-24: Update BuildOutputBufferTest to use the configured JUnit
Jupiter and Google Truth APIs: replace the JUnit 4 assertion and test imports
with com.google.common.truth.Truth.assertThat and org.junit.jupiter.api.Test,
and adjust assertions to the Truth style.

---

Nitpick comments:
In
`@app/src/main/java/com/itsaky/androidide/fragments/output/BuildOutputFragment.kt`:
- Around line 79-83: Add a short comment above visibleEditorChars and
editorSourceChars documenting that all writes occur on the main thread, while
background work only reads them, so their volatile read-modify-write updates
remain safe. Note that any future background-thread writes must use
AtomicInteger.
- Around line 350-367: In the timeout branch containing `awaitLayout`, remove
the child `viewLifecycleOwner.lifecycleScope.launch(Dispatchers.Main)` and its
`job.join()`, and call `awaitLayout` plus the mutex-protected append inline
within the existing main-thread context. Update the misleading timeout comment
to describe the actual behavior, while preserving the `isRestoreCurrent()` guard
and state updates.

In `@app/src/main/java/com/itsaky/androidide/viewmodel/BuildOutputViewModel.kt`:
- Around line 89-100: Update the KDoc for BuildOutputViewModel.append to
document that isCurrentSession executes on Dispatchers.IO while lock.withLock is
held, and that returning false silently discards the text without writing or
reporting an error. Preserve the existing lock placement and threading guidance.

In
`@app/src/test/java/com/itsaky/androidide/fragments/output/BuildOutputBufferTest.kt`:
- Around line 132-179: Extract the append-or-refresh logic from
BuildOutputFragment.flushToEditor into a pure BuildOutputViewModel function such
as nextEditorWindow(visible, sourceChars, batch), preserving bounded-tail
refresh behavior and source-character tracking. Update flushToEditor and both
tests to call this production function directly, then move the tests from
BuildOutputBufferTest into BuildOutputViewModelTest.
- Around line 105-116: Update the `clear resets pending output and overflow
accounting` test to use a `maxPendingChars` value that retains the normalized
`"kept"` input, ensuring `clear()` exercises the retained character accounting
reset. After `clear()` and offering `"new"`, assert `pendingChars` reflects only
the new content and retain the existing batch text assertion.
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/**
* Returns the last [WINDOW_SIZE_CHARS] characters from the session file for the editor to
* Returns the last [EDITOR_WINDOW_MAX_CHARS] characters from the session file for the editor to
* display (e.g. initial view or after rotation). Returns empty string if no content.
*/
fun getWindowForEditor(): String =
lock.withLock {
readTailFromFile(sessionFile, WINDOW_SIZE_CHARS)
readTailFromFile(sessionFile, EDITOR_WINDOW_MAX_CHARS)
}

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🚀 Performance & Scalability | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy lift

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Size the editor window and snapshot cache independently. EDITOR_WINDOW_MAX_CHARS is 512 Ki characters now, and readTailFromFile() decodes a full 4x byte range before taking the tail. The cache limit is tied to that same value, so each large append rebuilds a 512 Ki-character snapshot with (cachedContentSnapshot + text).takeLast(...). Decode only the needed tail or cap the in-memory append cache separately.

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In `@app/src/main/java/com/itsaky/androidide/viewmodel/BuildOutputViewModel.kt`
around lines 114 - 121, Decouple the editor display window from the in-memory
append cache in BuildOutputViewModel: update getWindowForEditor/readTailFromFile
at lines 114-121 to decode only the required tail, and update the
cachedContentSnapshot append logic at lines 282-283 to use a separate, smaller
cache limit. Preserve tail ordering and the existing empty-content behavior.

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Thank you for the patches!

Going forward, please follow the guidelines in https://github.com/appdevforall/CodeOnTheGo/blob/stage/CONTRIBUTING.md#community-contributions regarding branch naming. This affects our CI pipeline.

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Review of the memory-bounding change. Ten findings inline below (F01-F10), ordered high to medium; the three high ones are F01, F02 and F03.

The headline is F01: the window-refresh trigger has no hysteresis, so once the session file passes 512K chars every subsequent batch does a 2 MB disk read, a full re-filter and a setText(512K) on the main thread. Past that point the change costs more memory and more main-thread time than the Channel.UNLIMITED code it replaces, which inverts the goal of the PR. F05 and F06 are the other pair worth resolving before merge: overflow now drops output before it reaches build_output_session.txt, and it drops the newest lines rather than the oldest, so a build that produces a noisy burst and then fails loses exactly the trailing error region the user needs.

Worth saying plainly: the isCurrentSession guard (F07) fixes a real pre-existing race, and none of this is a security issue — a separate security pass over the diff found nothing at HIGH or MEDIUM, and re-priming the shareable snapshot from getWindowForEditor() narrows rather than widens what leaves the app.

One meta point (F14 in my notes, not inline since it isn't anchored to a changed line): the test suite models flushToEditor's window logic inline in BuildOutputBufferTest rather than calling the fragment, so F01-F04 are all invisible to it. The first test stops one batch short of exposing F01 — a fourth chunk would push refreshCount to 2, a fifth to 3, which is the thrash.

buildOutputViewModel.append(text) { sessionGen == sessionGeneration }
if (sessionGen != sessionGeneration) return
val refreshEditorWindow =
BuildOutputViewModel.wouldExceedEditorWindow(editorSourceChars, text.length)

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F01 (high): no hysteresis — past 512K, every batch triggers a full window refresh.

getWindowForEditor() -> readTailFromFile(file, 512*1024) ends in decoded.takeLast(maxChars) (BuildOutputViewModel.kt:191), so for any session file larger than the window it returns exactly 524288 chars. The refresh path then sets editorSourceChars = refreshedWindow.second = 524288 (line 488).

wouldExceedEditorWindow(524288, n) is 524288 > 524288 - n, which is true for every n >= 1. So the next batch refreshes too, and the one after that, indefinitely.

Concretely, a Gradle build emitting 2 MB of output: after the first ~512K, each ~32K batch allocates a 2 MB ByteArray plus a ~4 MB String, does a 512K takeLast, re-runs filterLines over 512K, then calls editor.setText(512K) and onContentReplaced() — which tears down the active search — on the UI thread. That is strictly worse than the code being replaced, on both memory and main-thread time.

Fix: give the trigger hysteresis, e.g. after a refresh set editorSourceChars to a value below the threshold, or only refresh every N chars. Better still, LogViewFragment.trimLinesAtStart() (LogViewFragment.kt:292-303) already trims the Sora Content in place with delete(0, 0, lastLine, getColumnCount(lastLine)) — no disk read, no setText of the whole window.

val generationAtRestore = editorContentGeneration
val visibleCharsAtRestore = visibleEditorChars
val sourceCharsAtRestore = editorSourceChars
fun isRestoreCurrent() =

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F02 (high): one live batch makes the restore silently discard the entire window.

restoreWindowFromViewModel() and processLogs() are launched concurrently (lines 101-102). The counter snapshot at 310-311 is taken on Dispatchers.Default, before the hop to Main. Any flushToEditor that reaches lines 501-502 in between bumps both counters, so isRestoreCurrent() is false at 343 and editor.appendBatch(content) never runs.

Repro: rotate the device (or return to the tab) during an active build with ~400K of prior output. The previous content is never restored — the editor shows only the lines streamed after the rotation, until the user happens to change a filter. The pre-PR code appended content unconditionally on this path, so this loss is new.

editorContentGeneration on its own was the correct guard: it is bumped by exactly the two operations that invalidate a restore (clearOutput, and the refresh path at 486). The two char counters change on every ordinary append, which is not the same predicate.

editorContentMutex.withLock {
if (isRestoreCurrent()) {
editor.appendBatch(content)
visibleEditorChars += content.length

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F03 (high): += into a counter that was never reset for this view, and onDestroyView() zeroes neither counter.

onDestroyView() (371-376) clears searchLayout/filterBar and releases the editor, but leaves visibleEditorChars/editorSourceChars holding the old view's values. On the next onViewCreated the editor is empty, yet this line adds content.length on top of the stale value — e.g. 300000 + 100000 = 400000 for an editor that actually holds 100000 chars.

editorSourceChars is likewise stale for the whole window between view creation and restore completion, and it is the input to wouldExceedEditorWindow(editorSourceChars, text.length) at 445 — so the first post-rotation batch can force (or wrongly skip) a full window refresh based on the previous view's accounting.

Both should be = here, since the editor is empty at this point, and both should be zeroed in onDestroyView().

// clearOutput() or renderFiltered() may have run since the file append.
if (editorGen == editorContentGeneration) {
appendBatch(visibleText)
visibleEditorChars += visibleText.length

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F04 (medium): the counters are incremented even when the append silently did nothing.

IDEEditor.appendBatch is if (isReadyToAppend) { runCatching { append(text) } } (IDEEditor.kt:342-346) — it no-ops when the editor is released, detached or zero-width, and swallows any exception from Sora's layout engine. Lines 500-502 and 512-514 add visibleText.length / text.length regardless.

Same shape at 486-488: editor?.setText(...) is null-safe, but the counters and editorContentGeneration++ are applied even when editor is null.

Once drifted, editorSourceChars over-counts and wouldExceedEditorWindow starts forcing full-window refreshes for content the editor never received — which compounds F01.

val normalizedLength = text.length.toLong() + if (needsNewline) 1 else 0
val lineCount = text.count { it == '\n' }.toLong() + if (needsNewline) 1 else 0
synchronized(lock) {
if (

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F05 (medium): overflow discards output before it is ever written to the session file.

The 256K budget is a pending budget, but the drop happens here in offer(), upstream of buildOutputViewModel.append() (BuildOutputFragment.kt:442) — the durable, file-backed sink that the in-memory bound was supposed to make unnecessary.

processLogs() only runs while viewLifecycleOwner is alive, so output arriving before onViewCreated, or while the ViewPager2 adapter has destroyed the build-output tab's view, has no consumer at all: past 256K everything becomes an omission marker and is permanently gone from build_output_session.txt, from share/copy, and from BuildOutputProvider. Channel.UNLIMITED never lost data.

F01 makes this fire during an ordinary build too — at ~100 ms of main-thread work per refreshed batch, 256K of pending output accumulates in a second or two of noisy Gradle output.

Fix: keep the disk record complete by writing on the producer side (or from an application-scoped consumer), and let the bound govern only what the editor holds. If dropping to disk is intended, it belongs in the PR description — shared and emailed logs now gain gaps where they used to be complete.

) {
existingOmission.lineCount += lineCount
} else {
val marker = Entry.Omission(lineCount, sessionGeneration)

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F06 (medium): drops the newest output and retains the oldest — the opposite of the other log buffer in this app, and the opposite of what a build log needs.

LogBuffer.append (app/src/main/java/com/itsaky/androidide/logs/LogBuffer.kt:64-66) evicts from the head: repeat(entries.size - maxEntryCount) { entries.removeFirst() }. This buffer keeps the first 256K and converts everything after it into [N build output lines omitted].

A build that dumps a large dependency-resolution or Kotlin-warning burst and then fails will retain the burst and replace the trailing compiler error, stack trace and BUILD FAILED region with the marker — the user keeps the part they don't need and loses the part they opened the panel for.

Evict from the head instead, coalescing the omission marker at the front, matching LogBuffer.

* any thread. Prefer calling before switching to Main so disk write does not block the UI.
*/
suspend fun append(text: String) {
suspend fun append(

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F07 (medium): the session-invalidation fix is a caller-supplied predicate rather than a token the ViewModel owns.

To be clear up front, the guard itself is a real fix: the pre-PR code checked the generation only before the suspending append(), so a stale batch could re-create the deleted file and repopulate cachedContentSnapshot. Re-checking inside the lock closes that. The objection is only to where it lives.

isCurrentSession: () -> Boolean = { true } makes correctness depend on every caller remembering to pass the closure — the default silently restores the old racy behaviour — and on that closure reading BuildOutputFragment.sessionGeneration, a private @Volatile in a different class, from inside this ViewModel's ReentrantLock.

The ViewModel already owns the session, since clear() is what deletes the file. So the generation belongs here: clear() bumps it, append(text, token) compares against its own field. As written, a future second caller of append() gets the unguarded default and can resurrect a cleared session file — and with no BuildOutputViewModel instance test in the repo, the invariant is currently untestable without the fragment.

incomingChars: Int,
): Boolean = currentChars > EDITOR_WINDOW_MAX_CHARS - incomingChars

internal fun fitEditorWindow(content: String): String =

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F08 (medium): fitEditorWindow() can never truncate at any of its three call sites.

All three calls (BuildOutputFragment.kt:132, 301, 466) are fitEditorWindow(filterLines(window, ...)), where window = getWindowForEditor() is already capped at EDITOR_WINDOW_MAX_CHARS by readTailFromFile's takeLast(maxChars). filterLines only ever shrinks its input — it drops non-matching lines and strips prefixes.

The one case where it grows is +1 char, when the input lacks a trailing newline. In exactly that case this helper silently chops the first character off the oldest line.

So it is dead defensive code that makes the bound look enforced while the real enforcement lives entirely in readTailFromFile. Either drop it, or make it the single enforcement point and stop depending on the tail read's cap.

return Batch(batch.toString(), sessionGeneration)
}

private fun omissionMarker(lineCount: Long): String = "[$lineCount build output lines omitted]\n"

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F09 (medium): user-visible English string hardcoded in code, and ungrammatical at a count of 1.

[$lineCount build output lines omitted] renders as [1 build output lines omitted], and stays English in all 12 localized values-* dirs that translate the other ~1200 strings in resources/src/main/res/values/strings.xml (msg_no_filter_matches at line 689 is the neighbouring case). It needs a <plurals> resource.

One wrinkle: the marker is also written into the session file via buildOutputViewModel.append(), so it leaks into shared/copied build output and into BuildOutputProvider.getBuildOutputContent(). That argues for keeping the on-disk form a stable, non-localized marker and localizing only what the editor renders.

if (text.isEmpty()) return
val needsNewline = !text.endsWith('\n')
val normalizedLength = text.length.toLong() + if (needsNewline) 1 else 0
val lineCount = text.count { it == '\n' }.toLong() + if (needsNewline) 1 else 0

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F10 (medium): offer() runs on the main thread, and this scan is wasted on the common path.

Every build line reaches appendOutput on the UI thread: GradleBuildService.wrap -> runOnUiThread (common/src/main/java/com/itsaky/androidide/tasks/TaskExecutor.kt:115) -> EditorBuildEventListener.onOutput -> ProjectHandlerActivity.appendBuildOutput -> EditorBottomSheet.appendBuildOut -> BuildOutputFragment.appendOutput. So offer() is always on the UI thread.

This line scans the whole string with text.count { it == '\n' }, and line 90 allocates "$text\n" — both inside synchronized(lock). The removed code did the equivalent (ensureNewline inside drainTo) on Dispatchers.Default.

lineCount is only consumed on the overflow branch, so on the common path the scan is pure waste. Compute it lazily inside the if at 74.

F01: the window refresh had no hysteresis, so once the session file passed
the threshold every subsequent batch did a full disk read, re-filter and
setText. The source-char counter is now reset to a base value after each
refresh instead of being left parked at the threshold.

F05/F06: overflow dropped the newest input and could strand an oversized
one entirely. Eviction now removes the oldest pending output first and
retains the newest tail, and the omission marker is folded into a single
leading entry that tracks both line and character counts.

F07: session invalidation is owned by the ViewModel as a token
(currentSessionToken / isCurrentSession) rather than a caller-supplied
predicate, so a stale writer cannot outlive clear().

F08: fitEditorWindow could never truncate at any of its three call sites,
since every caller passed an already-filtered window. Removed.

F09: the omission marker pluralizes rather than rendering
"1 build output lines omitted".

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01TeuFQUkLJAMt4KTLvSF7hh
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Thanks for the depth here — F01 was the right thing to lead with. All ten are addressed in b258106.

F01. You're right that without hysteresis the change inverts its own goal past 512K. The source-char counter is now reset to a base value after each refresh (editorSourceCharsAfterRefresh) rather than left parked at the threshold, so a refresh no longer re-arms itself on the very next batch.

F02. restoreWindowFromViewModel and processLogs now coordinate through editorContentMutex plus an editorContentGeneration counter; the restore checks isRestoreCurrent() inside the lock and drops itself if a flush landed first, instead of discarding the window.

F03. onDestroyView zeroes both counters.

F04. appendBatch became appendBatchIfReady, which reports whether the append actually happened; the counters and generation bump only advance on a real append.

F05/F06. Overflow now evicts the oldest pending output and retains the newest tail, so an oversized input is truncated rather than stranded, and the omission marker is one leading entry carrying both line and char counts (saturating, so it can't wrap).

F07. The session token is ViewModel-owned — currentSessionToken / isCurrentSession — rather than a caller-supplied predicate.

F08. Deleted. You were right that all three call sites pre-filtered, so it could never truncate.

F09. Pluralized.

F10. The full count { '\n' } scan is off the common path — it now runs only when a fragment actually overflows. offer() still normalizes a trailing newline, which is a length check plus at most one concat.

One caveat: the omission marker string is still hardcoded English. Happy to route it through the string resources if you'd prefer that before merge.

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@mvanhorn Thanks — I re-read all three production files at b258106, not just the commit message. F01 through F08 and F10 are genuinely fixed, and a few go further than I asked: the refresh path now reads getCachedContentSnapshot() instead of getWindowForEditor(), so the 2 MB ByteArray read per refresh is gone entirely, and newline normalization moved off the UI thread into appendOutput. The hysteresis test is a real regression test — with the old editorSourceChars = window.length it would count 6 refreshes instead of 2.

F09 is the one still open. I've left an inline note asking for the strings.xml move; it is cheaper now than when I filed it, because your F05 fix means the marker never reaches disk.

Two new inline comments: F15 (high) and F16 (low), both introduced by this commit.

CodeRabbit reached F15 independently. Its one actionable comment on this push is on the same two lines (96-97) with the same remedy — catch and log non-cancellation failures from restoreWindowFromViewModel(), rethrow CancellationException, then continue into processLogs(). Its merge-risk note says the same thing in prose: "If restoring previously saved build output fails, live build logs may not appear and filtering may stop for that session." Two independent readers landing on one defect is worth weighting.

Merge conflicts — please rebase, and expect this one to be semantic

The PR is CONFLICTING / DIRTY against stage. Both conflicting files are yours:

  • app/src/main/java/com/itsaky/androidide/fragments/output/BuildOutputFragment.kt
  • app/src/main/java/com/itsaky/androidide/viewmodel/BuildOutputViewModel.kt

One commit causes it: #1763, ADFA-5307 2c05884a8 ("Return real build log from getBuildOutput"), merged after you branched. It rewrote the same write path, so a textual rebase will compile and still be wrong. Four things to reconcile:

  1. Double write. EditorBottomSheet.appendBuildOut on stage now calls both buildOutputViewModel.appendAsync(str) and pagerAdapter.buildOutputFragment?.appendOutput(str). Your F05 fix made appendOutput write to the session file too. Rebased as-is, every build line is written to build_output_session.txt twice.

  2. Duplicate F07 fix. stage already added a ViewModel-owned sessionGeneration, bumped by clear(), plus appendForSession(text, generation) that checks it inside the file lock — the same fix as your currentSessionToken / isCurrentSession. Keep one; theirs is already the merged one.

  3. appendMutex no longer orders the disk write. snapshotEditorWindow() comments that "the snapshot already contains everything persisted before this boundary." That holds only while this fragment owns the write. On stage, writes go through a Channel.UNLIMITED and a viewModelScope writer coroutine, so they are not ordered by your mutex, and the invariant that makes outputBuffer.clear() safe there breaks.

  4. Renames underneath your new constants. stage deleted the instance readTailFromFile, moved it to the companion next to a new tailFromLineStart, and renamed the window constant to WINDOW_SIZE_CHARS. Your EDITOR_WINDOW_MAX_CHARS, EDITOR_WINDOW_REFRESH_CHARS and editorSourceCharsAfterRefresh() need to be rehomed against those.

Item 1 is the one that changes behaviour silently, so it's worth a check after the rebase rather than a read.

Nothing here is a blocker on the work you did — the ten findings are answered. Happy to re-review once the rebase and F09 are in.

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withContext(Dispatchers.Default) { processLogs() }

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F15 (high, new in b258106): a failed restore now takes live streaming with it.

Before this commit restoreWindowFromViewModel() and processLogs() were sibling launches, so either could fail without touching the other. They are now sequential in one coroutine, so processLogs() starts only if the restore returns normally. Two ways it doesn't:

  1. Restore throws. Anything inside it — snapshotEditorWindow()'s IO read, filterLines, editor.setText("") at line 315 — kills this launch, and processLogs() is never reached. The session file and the 256K bound stay healthy; the panel simply stops updating for the life of this view, and a filter change is the only thing that repaints it.

  2. Layout never completes. The timeout branch at line 342 re-awaits awaitLayout() with no timeout. If the editor never gets a width — build-output tab never selected in the pager — that suspension never resumes, and processLogs() never starts.

CodeRabbit's single actionable comment on this push is on these same two lines, with the same remedy, so this isn't just my reading.

Fix either way: restore the two sibling launches, or wrap the restore in the same shape you already applied to the batch loop at lines 433-437 — rethrow CancellationException, log everything else, then fall through to processLogs().

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if (!buildOutputViewModel.isCurrentSession(sessionToken)) return
val refreshEditorWindow =
BuildOutputViewModel.wouldExceedEditorWindow(editorSourceChars, sourceChars)

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F16 (low, new in b258106): the refresh decision reads editorSourceChars off Main and outside the mutex.

flushToEditor runs on Dispatchers.Default (line 97, line 424). This line reads editorSourceChars there, but every write to it happens on Main inside editorContentMutex (lines 500, 506, 516, plus renderFiltered at 135 and restore at 336). @Volatile prevents tearing, not staleness — the value can change between this read and the lock at line 488, so a batch can refresh a window that was just refreshed, or skip a refresh it needed.

Low severity, and I want to say why rather than just flag it: processLogs() is a single consumer, so flushes don't race each other, and the 128K hysteresis band your F01 fix introduced absorbs a batch or two of drift. The only real racers are renderFiltered and clearOutput, both of which bump editorContentGeneration and so already drop the batch at line 490.

Recording it so the next reader doesn't have to re-derive that it's benign. If you want it airtight, move the wouldExceedEditorWindow read inside the editorContentMutex block — though that means computing the refreshed window under the lock, which is the trade you were avoiding.

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private fun omissionMarker(lineCount: Long): String {
val noun = if (lineCount == 1L) "line" else "lines"
return "[$lineCount build output $noun omitted]\n"
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F09 follow-up — could you move this string to strings.xml before merge?

The pluralization fixes "1 build output lines omitted", thanks. The localization half is still open, and it is cheaper to close now than when I filed it: because appendOutput persists to the session file before offering to the buffer (BuildOutputFragment.kt:398-403), the marker no longer reaches build_output_session.txt, share/copy, or BuildOutputProvider. It is editor-only text now, so there is no stable on-disk form to protect and the whole string can be localized.

Home for it: resources/src/main/res/values/strings.xml, next to msg_no_filter_matches (line 689).

One thing to know before you pick a form: this repo currently has no <plurals> resource and no getQuantityString call anywhere. So a <plurals name="msg_build_output_lines_omitted"> is the correct Android mechanism and I'd take it, but it would be the first, and it lands in 12 values-* dirs. If you'd rather not be the one to introduce that, a plain <string> with a %1$d placeholder and your existing singular/plural branch kept in code is fine by me — the point of the finding is that the text stops being a Kotlin literal, not which resource type carries it.

Two ways to keep BuildOutputBuffer free of a Context and unit-testable — your call:

  • Constructor parameter formatOmission: (Long) -> String, defaulted to the current literal for tests; the fragment passes the resolved-string lambda.
  • Add omittedLines: Long to Batch and format on Main in flushToEditor. An Omission is only ever added with addFirst and there is at most one, so when a batch contains a marker it is always at index 0 of batch.text — prepending in the fragment preserves order.

…e mutex

Addresses F09 and F16.

F09: the omission marker moves to a <plurals> resource,
msg_build_output_lines_omitted, next to msg_no_filter_matches.
BuildOutputBuffer takes an injected formatter rather than a Context, so it
stays a plain data class and remains testable; BuildOutputFragment supplies
getQuantityString. The hardcoded English form is kept as the fallback for
callers without a Context. This is the repo's first <plurals> resource.

F16: the refresh decision read editorSourceChars on Dispatchers.Default and
outside editorContentMutex. It now reads under the mutex on Main, so the
value cannot change between the read and the lock.
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Thanks @hal-eisen-adfa. Both addressed in b42c809.

F09 — localization. The marker is now <plurals name="msg_build_output_lines_omitted"> in resources/src/main/res/values/strings.xml, next to msg_no_filter_matches as you suggested. You were right that this is the correct Android mechanism and that the repo had none: this is the first <plurals> resource and the first getQuantityString call here.

One design note. BuildOutputBuffer has no Context and I did not want to give it one just for a string, since it is a plain data class with unit tests that construct it directly. So it takes an injected formatOmission: (Long) -> String, and BuildOutputFragment supplies the getQuantityString call. The hardcoded English form stays as defaultOmissionMarker for the no-Context path, which is what the existing tests use. If you would rather the buffer took a Context, say so and I will switch it.

F16 — unsynchronized read. The editorSourceChars read moved inside editorContentMutex on Main, so it can no longer change between the read and the lock. Your severity call was right and I appreciated the reasoning rather than just the flag.

Verified locally: :app:compileV8DebugKotlin BUILD SUCCESSFUL, BuildOutputBufferTest 12/12.

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// Replace content without waiting indefinitely for an offscreen editor's layout.
editorContentMutex.withLock {
if (isRestoreCurrent()) {
editor.setText(content)

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Do not call IDEEditor.setText after the layout timeout. IDEEditor inherits setText from Sora CodeEditor. Its contract requires layout before text insertion to prevent ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException. This branch bypasses that contract and can fail during restoration. Defer replacement until layout or add a pre-layout-safe API, with a bounded UI test.

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In
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around lines 360 - 363, Update the restoration branch guarded by
isRestoreCurrent() so it does not call editor.setText after the layout timeout.
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/** Max length of [cachedContentSnapshot] to bound memory. */
private const val CACHE_SNAPSHOT_MAX_CHARS = WINDOW_SIZE_CHARS
private const val CACHE_SNAPSHOT_MAX_CHARS = 128 * 1024

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Keep the editor window and the bounded cache separate.

Line 295 limits cachedContentSnapshot to 128 KiB, but BuildOutputFragment.flushToEditor() uses that snapshot for window refreshes at Lines 491-493. The configured editor window remains 512 KiB, so a live refresh replaces the editor with only the newest 128 KiB.

BuildOutputFragment.getShareableContent() also reads this snapshot at Line 403. Share/copy therefore returns only the tail after output exceeds 128 KiB. Refresh from the full editor window and read the full persisted output for sharing while keeping a separate bounded cache for memory control.

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In `@app/src/main/java/com/itsaky/androidide/viewmodel/BuildOutputViewModel.kt` at
line 295, Separate the bounded cachedContentSnapshot from the content used for
editor refresh and sharing: update BuildOutputFragment.flushToEditor() to
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Three comments on b42c809. F15 and F09 are correctly closed - thank you for both. The plurals resource landed where I asked, and the injected formatter is the right call for keeping BuildOutputBuffer free of a Context and testable.

F16 is not closed. The commit also introduces two things that are not in its message: F17 (medium-high) and F18 (low-medium). Details inline.

I checked your build claim on the branch at b42c809: :app:compileV8DebugKotlin BUILD SUCCESSFUL, BuildOutputBufferTest 12/12. Worth saying plainly that this does not reach any of the three findings - F16, F17 and F18 all live in BuildOutputFragment, which no test in this PR executes. That is the F14 gap from my first review, still open.

The rebase is still outstanding: the PR is CONFLICTING against stage. F17 adds a fifth item to the four I listed, because stage sets CACHE_SNAPSHOT_MAX_CHARS = WINDOW_SIZE_CHARS.

Comment on lines 472 to +477
) {
editorContentMutex.withLock {
// A clear (new build) after this batch was drained invalidates session append.
if (sessionGen != sessionGeneration) return

buildOutputViewModel.append(text)

// The session file always gets the full text; the editor only shows matching lines
val visibleText =
BuildOutputViewModel.filterLines(
text,
buildOutputViewModel.filterText.value,
buildOutputViewModel.showTimestamps.value,
buildOutputViewModel.showDeltas.value,
)
if (visibleText.isEmpty()) {
return
if (!buildOutputViewModel.isCurrentSession(sessionToken)) return
val refreshEditorWindow =
withContext(Dispatchers.Main) {
editorContentMutex.withLock {
BuildOutputViewModel.wouldExceedEditorWindow(editorSourceChars, sourceChars)

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F16 is not closed by b42c809.

The read is under the mutex now, but the lock is released at the end of this block. The value it produces is not used until line 512, under a second acquisition, with filterLines over the batch and the whole refreshed-window computation in between. So editorSourceChars can still change between the read and the act. The window is shorter, not closed - your comment says "it can no longer change between the read and the lock", and that is the part I can't confirm.

It also costs a Main-thread dispatch per batch, in a PR whose purpose is to cut main-thread work on noisy builds. Before this commit the read was a @Volatile load already on Dispatchers.Default, free.

My original note said the airtight version means computing the refreshed window under the lock, and that this is a trade you may not want to make. I still think that. Either of these is fine by me:

  • Put the read back on Dispatchers.Default and add a short comment saying the editorContentGeneration check at line 513 is what makes the staleness benign. No dispatch, same real-world behaviour.
  • Move the decision and the refresh together into the editorContentMutex block at 511.

The current shape is the one I'd rather not merge: it pays the dispatch and does not buy the atomicity.


/** Max length of [cachedContentSnapshot] to bound memory. */
private const val CACHE_SNAPSHOT_MAX_CHARS = WINDOW_SIZE_CHARS
private const val CACHE_SNAPSHOT_MAX_CHARS = 128 * 1024

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F17 (medium-high, new in b42c809): this 4x cut is not in the commit message, and it reaches share and copy.

CACHE_SNAPSHOT_MAX_CHARS was EDITOR_WINDOW_MAX_CHARS (512K); it is now 128K. The commit message and your PR comment both cover only F09 and F16, so I found this by reading the diff.

Two user-visible effects:

  1. Share and copy lose three quarters of the log. getShareableContent() (BuildOutputFragment.kt:403) returns getCachedContentSnapshot(). Shared and emailed build output now carries the last 128K instead of the last 512K. That is the same class of loss as F05, arriving by a different route.

  2. Scrollback collapses at every refresh. The refresh path takes its window from getCachedContentSnapshot() (BuildOutputFragment.kt:491), so a refresh replaces a roughly 512K editor with 128K. The editor then grows back toward 512K and snaps to 128K again. Before this commit the refresh was close to content-preserving.

It also makes editorSourceCharsAfterRefresh's coerceAtMost(EDITOR_WINDOW_REFRESH_BASE_CHARS) (384K) dead at that call site, since the window can no longer exceed 128K. That is the F08 shape again.

And stage sets CACHE_SNAPSHOT_MAX_CHARS = WINDOW_SIZE_CHARS (512K) in the code you have to rebase onto, so this is a semantic conflict as well.

If the intent was to bound the cache harder, share and copy need a different source - getFullContent() exists and its KDoc at line 136 already names that as its job. If the intent was to cut refresh cost, the hysteresis from your F01 fix already does that. Either way, please put the decision in the PR description; a 4x cut to what leaves the app should not be a silent line in a localization commit.

// Replace content without waiting indefinitely for an offscreen editor's layout.
editorContentMutex.withLock {
if (isRestoreCurrent()) {
editor.setText(content)

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F18 (low-medium, new in b42c809): the only content write with no readiness guard, and the only setText with no onContentReplaced().

Dropping the second unbounded awaitLayout() here is right, and it closes the second half of F15. The replacement has two gaps.

  1. No guard. Every other insertion in this file goes through appendBatchIfReady (line 556), which checks isReadyToAppend (!isReleased && isAttachedToWindow && isLaidOut && width > 0) and wraps the write in runCatching. The KDoc on flushToEditor says that guard exists to stop Sora's ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException during layout. This call has neither, and it is in the one branch where layout is known not to have completed - that is what put us here. isRestoreCurrent() covers the released editor, since onDestroyView bumps the generation, but it does not cover width 0. With the new try/catch at line 108, anything thrown here is logged and the panel then stays empty for the life of the view.

  2. No onContentReplaced(). The three sibling setText calls (153, 334, 522) all call it, so an active search is refreshed or stopped. This one leaves the searcher pointing at the old content.

Route it through the same readiness path, or at minimum runCatching the setText and call onContentReplaced() after it.

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Three high-severity findings on b42c809, inline below. F16 from my last review is still open; F17 and F18 stand as filed.

I verified each of these on the branch rather than reading the diff alone. F35 and F36 are diffed against the merge base (62d5573) so I could be sure they are new here and not pre-existing, and F34 is read from the current file.

Two of the three trace back to fixes I asked for, so let me be straight about that:

  • F36 is the mechanism of the F05 fix. Writing to disk before the buffer is right; it just needed to stay batched.
  • F09 option 1, which I offered, has a threading hazard I did not see. formatOmission is called from takeAvailableBatch inside synchronized(lock) on Dispatchers.Default, so a background thread reads Fragment.context, and Main blocks on that same monitor whenever offer() runs. My option 2 - carry omittedLines on Batch and format on Main in flushToEditor - has neither problem. Please switch to it. That one is mine, not yours.

I have further findings at medium-high and below, including silent output loss on the refresh path and a 4x cut to the plugin-facing BuildOutputProvider tail. I am holding them until these three are settled, so the thread stays readable. The rebase is also still outstanding.

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} else {
editor.awaitLayout(onForceVisible = { updateEmptyState(isSourceEmpty = false, isFilterActive = isFilterActive) })

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F34 (high, still open): the unbounded awaitLayout() you removed from the restore path is still here - and this one holds editorContentMutex.

b42c809 closed the restore half of F15 by dropping the second unbounded wait at line 363. The identical construct survives here, inside the editorContentMutex.withLock opened at line 510, on Main.

If the editor never reaches width > 0 - build-output tab never selected in the pager, bottom sheet never expanded - withTimeoutOrNull cancels the first wait at line 533 after 2s, then line 542 registers a fresh layout listener and suspends with no timeout, still holding the mutex. Three consequences, none of which recover:

  • renderFiltered (line 150) takes the same mutex, so every filter and timestamp toggle is dead for the life of the view.
  • processLogs is parked in flushToEditor, so nothing drains outputBuffer. It fills to its 256K cap and begins converting real build output into omission markers.
  • The only thing that would resume the continuation is the layout that is not coming.

This is F15 at the sibling site. Repo CLAUDE.md, "Verify before you claim": "Sweep the siblings, not just the site in front of you." The pass that fixed line 363 needed to reach this one.

Fix shape: do not hold the mutex across an unbounded wait. Either drop the batch here - the session file and the buffer both still hold it - or await layout outside the lock, then re-take it and re-check editorGen.

logChannel.trySend(output)
val text = output ?: return
if (text.isEmpty()) return
val sessionToken = buildOutputViewModel.currentSessionToken

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F35 (high, new in this PR): appendOutput forces the activityViewModels delegate with no isAdded guard.

This line reads buildOutputViewModel.currentSessionToken, which forces the by activityViewModels() lazy at line 54 and calls requireActivity(). At the merge base (62d5573) appendOutput was:

fun appendOutput(output: String?) {
	if (!output.isNullOrEmpty()) {
		logChannel.trySend(output)
	}
}

It never touched the ViewModel, so this exposure is new here.

The caller does not guard either. EditorBottomSheet.appendBuildOut (line 517) is pagerAdapter.buildOutputFragment?.appendOutput(str), while its sibling clearBuildOutput (line 536) is pagerAdapter.buildOutputFragment?.takeIf { it.isAdded }?.clearOutput(). The pager adapter still returns the fragment after detach, so a build emitting output across a config change or the run-tasks path reaches requireActivity() on a detached fragment and throws IllegalStateException: Fragment not attached to an activity.

This file already knows the hazard. The comments at lines 384 and 401 name it, and BuildOutputFragmentDetachedTest exists specifically to pin it - its KDoc says "The fix guards both methods with if (!isAdded || activity == null) return". appendOutput is now the third method with the same exposure and the only unguarded one.

Fix: the same guard as its two siblings, plus a third case in BuildOutputFragmentDetachedTest so the next entry point does not repeat this.

Comment on lines 112 to 116
FileOutputStream(sessionFile, true).use {
it.write(text.toByteArray(StandardCharsets.UTF_8))
}
cachedContentSnapshot =
(cachedContentSnapshot + text).takeLast(CACHE_SNAPSHOT_MAX_CHARS)

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F36 (high, new in this PR): the disk write lost its batching, so this now runs once per output line.

At the merge base, buildOutputViewModel.append(text) was called once per drained batch, after logChannel.drainTo(...) coalesced everything available. appendOutput now calls it per line (BuildOutputFragment.kt:418). Two costs move from per-batch to per-line:

  1. A FileOutputStream open, write and close (line 112).
  2. (cachedContentSnapshot + text).takeLast(CACHE_SNAPSHOT_MAX_CHARS) (line 115), which allocates a string the size of the cache and then a second one - roughly 2 x 128K per line.

A build emitting 20k lines therefore pays 20k open/write/close cycles and on the order of 5 GB of allocation churn, all under lock on Dispatchers.IO, with the producer serialised behind it because appendOutput holds appendMutex for the whole call. This is a PR about bounding memory and main-thread cost; on a noisy build this path now spends more of both than the code it replaced. That is the F01 shape again, in a different place.

To be clear about where this came from: writing to disk before the buffer is the correct answer to F05 and I asked for it. The regression is only that it stopped being batched. Two independent fixes, and I would take both:

  • Coalesce again - buffer lines and call append() once per batch, or keep the stream open in a writer that drains a queue.
  • Stop rebuilding the cache on every call. A StringBuilder trimmed when it exceeds the cap removes the quadratic behaviour regardless of how the batching lands.

Please measure a large assembleV8Debug before and after; this one is worth a number in the PR description rather than a claim.

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@mvanhorn Awesome, we're getting closer. Thanks for being so flexible and responsive.

It would be good to address the Code Rabbit feedback when you have a chance.

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