perf(core,viewer): stop rebuilding wall geometry every frame

[toycenterboss-bot]

What does this PR do?

Wall geometry, mitre joints and slab support were recomputed inside the render
loop, so every frame paid for work whose inputs had not changed. On an imported
floor with 1089 walls the first level build took 59 s and the editor was
unusable until it finished. This PR caches the derived results and invalidates
them only when the walls, the level or the openings actually change: mitre
solving keeps a per-level result keyed by the exact wall fields the miters
depend on, slab support holds its effective slab/wall records by identity
instead of re-deriving them once per wall, and the rendered-polygon lookup
memoises against those same arrays. The same level now builds in 0.01 s.

No behaviour changes — the geometry produced is identical, it is simply produced
once instead of once per frame.

Related to #492 — the per-frame recompute is one of the paths that makes wall
interaction stutter on large scenes. Measurements and method are in
a comment on that issue.

Scene	Wall nodes	First level build
imported floor plan	1089	59 s → 0.01 s

The second commit clears the new level-miter cache when WallSystem unmounts —
it lives at module scope, so without that a remount or a second project in the
same tab keeps the previous level's wall arrays reachable. Editor teardown
already resets the other shared singletons; this makes the cache follow the same
rule, and the rule is now written down in wiki/architecture/systems.md.

How to test

1. bun dev and open a scene with a few hundred walls (any floor plan import will do).
2. Watch the time between opening the scene and the first painted frame — it should
   be immediate rather than a multi-second freeze.
3. Orbit the camera and confirm wall joints, openings and slab-supported wall tops
   look exactly as they did before.
4. Move a wall with the move tool and confirm its neighbours re-mitre immediately —
   the cache must invalidate, not go stale.
5. Navigate out of the editor and back in, then open a different project in the same
   tab — the miter cache must not carry entries from the previous level.
6. bun test — wall-mitering, slab-support and spatial-grid suites cover the
   invalidation paths.

Screenshots / screen recording

N/A — no visual change. The output geometry is identical; only the time to produce
it changes. Happy to add a before/after screen recording of the load freeze if that
would help review.

Checklist

• I've tested this locally with bun dev
• My code follows the existing code style (run bun check to verify)
• I've updated relevant documentation (if applicable)
• This PR targets the main branch

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Note

Medium Risk
Caching and junction prefiltering must invalidate on the right inputs; incorrect hits would show wrong joints or wall bases, though tests cover miter cache equality and grid ordering.

Overview
Stops recomputing unchanged wall geometry work every frame on large imports (~1000+ walls), cutting first-level build from tens of seconds to near-instant while keeping output identical.

Miter solving now goes through a per-level cache (getCachedLevelMiters) that compares the wall fields miters depend on (not array identity), so progressive rebuilds that pass fresh arrays each frame still hit. T-junction discovery in findJunctions uses a spatial grid over wall AABBs instead of scanning every wall per junction, with passthrough walls still appended in input order so collinear thickness ties stay correct. Slab support reuses one derived slab/wall list per level per frame (getSupportInputs in spatialGridManager) and memoizes rendered slab polygons inside computeWallSlabSupport when those arrays are stable. getLevelElevations is weak-memoized on the nodes slice. WallCutout only rebuilds the full-scene wall appearance key when nodes, materials, shading, or wall count change.

The level miter cache is cleared on WallSystem unmount so remounts/projects in the same tab do not retain stale entries; docs add a rule to clear module-level caches like other singletons.

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[Aymericr]

This is the best-diagnosed performance PR this repo has received, and the win is real — I measured it rather than taking the numbers on trust. calculateLevelMiters on synthetic levels, main vs this branch:

walls	main	branch	speedup
100	1.37 ms	0.26 ms	5.3×
500	22.10 ms	1.61 ms	13.7×
1089	88.01 ms	1.12 ms	78×

Repeated every frame while the progressive queue drains, that is the multi-second freeze in #492. The AABB argument is sound: a T-junction can only exist where the point lies on the segment, so it must lie in the wall's AABB, and the cell containing the point is always one the wall was indexed into. Bucketing loses nothing. Writing the dirty-tracking rule into wiki/architecture/systems.md is exactly where it belongs.

maintainerCanModify was on, so rather than send you round again I pushed four commits. Please review them — they are changes to your work, and I will drop any you disagree with.

1. Rebased onto main. One conflict, one hunk, in getSlabSupportForWall: main added a terrain-aware levelBase, a !slabMap early return and a supportOffset post-adjustment; you replaced the two inline .map()s with getSupportInputs. Both are wanted, so the resolution keeps main's guard and elevation handling and takes your cached inputs. CONFLICTING → MERGEABLE.

2. Fixed a geometry difference in the grid prefilter. The comment claims the result is "bit-identical to the naive pass". It is not:

for (const bucket of [cellCandidates, oversized]) {   // ← cell bucket always first

A wall covering more than JUNCTION_GRID_MAX_CELLS_PER_WALL (64) cells goes to oversized, scanned after the per-cell bucket — so an oversized wall is appended after shorter walls that precede it in walls. That matters because collinear walls overlapping a junction tie on angle, and the sort in calculateJunctionIntersections is stable, so append order decides which wall's thickness the miter uses.

A 20 m diagonal facade at 0.6 thickness, a collinear 8 m infill at 0.15, a spur at (8,8):

main:   connectedWalls = [spur, long, infill]   spur.startLeft.y = 8.2743
branch: connectedWalls = [spur, infill, long]   spur.startLeft.y = 7.9561

0.32 m of drift. The threshold is easy to hit: a 45° wall goes oversized past ~20 m of length (14 m extent = 81 cells), any horizontal wall past ~100 m. Over 4003 generated cases, 1503 diverged.

The fix buffers the matches and appends them in input order. After it, main and branch agree on all 4003 cases — full connectedWalls ordering, junctionData, and every wall's boundary quad. Two regression tests in wall-mitering.test.ts; deleting the sort makes the first one fail, so it is not a vacuous test. I also corrected the comment, since "identical" is now a claim the tests back.

In fairness, this is not you breaking correct geometry. I checked whether main is order-independent here, and it is not: the same three walls as [a,b,c] vs [b,a,c] give main 8.2743 vs 7.9561 — the same two values. So main already returns an answer that depends on scene-graph array order, and your change picks a different arbitrary one. That downgrades this from "silent corruption" to "changes which coin-flip wins". Still worth exact parity, because otherwise the same file reloads with different joints after this lands. The tie-break itself is a pre-existing latent bug; I will file it separately rather than grow this PR.

3. Added the missing miter-cache tests. The description says the wall-mitering, slab-support and spatial-grid suites cover the invalidation paths. I mutation-tested each new cache — broke its invalidation, ran the full suite:

cache	mutation	result
polygonMemo (slab-support.ts)	never reset	3 fail ✅
supportInputs (spatial-grid-manager.ts)	ignore revision/identity guards	1 fail ✅
levelMiterCache (wall-system.tsx)	sameMiterInputs → return true	0 fail ❌

Two of three are genuinely covered. The headline cache had none: it could serve a permanently stale miter solution with all 818 tests green — and a stale hit silently rendering wrong joints is the exact risk your own comment names.

It was not reachable from a test where it sat, so I extracted it to packages/viewer/src/systems/wall/level-miter-cache.ts (the closure-factory pattern this repo already uses, since there is no DOM/React test infra) and added level-miter-cache.test.ts: reuse across equal-but-not-identical arrays, recompute on move, per-level keying, clear() on teardown, one case per compared field. That same mutation now fails 7 tests.

4. Made the level-elevation memo weakly keyed. The new single-slot memo in storey.ts holds a strong reference to the whole nodes record, so closing a project keeps its entire graph reachable until the next call. terrain-support.ts:55 already wraps this same function in a WeakMap for that reason — I matched it. Worth noting your memo is not redundant with that wrapper: space-detection.ts:979 and stair-opening-sync.ts:610,630 call getLevelElevations directly and bypass it, so memoizing at the function is the better placement. Only the strong retention needed changing.

Verification on the final state:

• bun run check — clean
• bun run check-types — 9/9 tasks
• bun run test — 12/12 tasks, 2882 pass / 0 fail

Two notes, neither a change request. Bugbot's only finding ("miter cache never cleared") was already fixed by your own e54ff9d6. And "How to test" step 6 says bun test — that is a Bun builtin which shadows the package script and never invokes Turborepo, so it does not run what it looks like; bun run test is the gate.

Ready to merge once you have looked over the four commits and confirmed you are happy with them — particularly the ordering fix, since it changes output the comment asserted was unchanged.

[Aymericr]

CI is green now (it was sitting at action_required as a fork PR — approved both runs). quality, ci, and Bugbot all pass, and the branch is mergeable.

Follow-up filed as promised in my review: #581 covers the pre-existing junction-ordering bug. To restate the scope so it isn't misread as a regression from this PR — processedWalls.sort((a, b) => a.angle - b.angle) in wall-mitering.ts has no tie-break, so two exactly-collinear walls at a junction get paired in whatever order scene iteration produced. That predates this branch; your caching work is what made ordering load-bearing for cache identity and surfaced it. #581 also flags checking whether level-miter-cache.ts keys on anything order-dependent, since a non-deterministic order there would mean a cache valid in one session and stale in the next.

Merging. The per-frame rebuild this removes was a real cost on any scene with a meaningful wall count, and the cache test coverage is what makes it safe to take.

[toycenterboss-bot]

Thanks for taking this through review, and for #581 -> #596 — good to see the ordering trap closed properly rather than papered over.

One small thing, flagged so it does not simply get lost: #598 added Unreleased entries for #596 and #597, and there is no line for #556. The section currently only has a ### Fixes heading and this was a performance change, so it may just be that there is no ### Performance heading yet, or that perf entries are batched at release time. If an entry is wanted, I am happy to open a one-line PR — just say which heading it should sit under.