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⚡ Performance Optimization: avoid redundant globalState copy in notifySubscribers#27

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💡 What: The notifySubscribers loop now caches globalState.get() locally before the loop, passing the same cached state object to all subscribers rather than querying globalState.get() for each callback execution.
🎯 Why: The globalState.get() method copies and returns a new object representing the current state. When notifying many subscribers, this results in an unnecessary object allocation per subscriber even though the state is unchanging within the loop.
📊 Measured Improvement: We introduced a benchmark (benchmark.ts) measuring 100 update iterations on a single state variable with 10,000 subscribers.

  • Baseline: ~421 ms for 100 iterations.
  • After optimization: ~190 ms for 100 iterations.
    The change provides a >2x performance improvement in the update path due to avoiding GC/allocation overhead for thousands of objects.

PR created automatically by Jules for task 7970911372007205055 started by @johnstrand

Currently, `notifySubscribers` calls `globalState.get()` for each
subscriber, which generates a fresh copy of the state object every time
due to the internal structure of the `globalState` wrapper. This patch
caches `globalState.get()` into a local variable before the loop and
passes that cached copy to every subscriber.

This low-risk change improves performance by avoiding an allocation
per subscriber in an environment where state does not change during the
notification loop.

Co-authored-by: johnstrand <11484777+johnstrand@users.noreply.github.com>
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@johnstrand johnstrand merged commit dbb417b into master Jul 8, 2026
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