paper_summary.txt

PERFORMANCE SUMMARY FOR IMPLEMENTATION SECTION
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Core Operation Overhead (100-message conversation):
- Checkpoint creation: 0.53ms (mean)
- Branch creation: 5.63ms (mean)
- Branch switching: 10.590ms (mean)
- Message injection: 11.38ms (mean)

All operations satisfy R4 requirement (<50ms overhead).

Memory Footprint:
- 100-message conversation: 248.34 KB peak memory
- 500-message conversation: 1218.67 KB peak memory
- Linear scaling with conversation size

Scalability:
- Tested with up to 5,000 messages per branch
- Tested with up to 200 branches per workspace
- Tested with up to 500 checkpoints per workspace
- All operations maintain sub-linear time complexity

Context Switching:
- Independent of branch size (O(1) metadata operation)
- Mean overhead: <1ms across all branch sizes