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  • avoid per-item [item, key, index] tuple allocations in createFor:
    getItemValue + positional args, parallel queued arrays instead of
    MountOper/MoveOper objects, direct-build key index map
  • enter item scopes via setCurrentScope instead of a per-row
    scope.run() closure
  • create RenderEffect scheduler jobs lazily on first notify
  • drop the per-listener cleanup closure in the static on() path and
    the default options object in on()/onBinding()

Benchmarks

In-repo harness (packages-private/benchmark), headless Chrome 151,
page.emulateCPUThrottling(4), 5 warmup + 30 recorded rounds, medians in ms.

Both sides use @click.delegate on the row handlers, so the table isolates
the runtime change — event delegation contributes nothing to these deltas.

op minor this branch Δ
create 1,000 rows 16.8 15.9 −5%
append 1,000 rows 18.5 17.3 −6%
create 10,000 rows 187.9 173.0 −8%
swap rows 1.7 1.1 −35%
remove row 1.0 0.6 −40%
clear rows 16.5 15.8 −4%
partial update 1.3 1.5 noise

swap and remove are unaffected by delegation either way, so those are
entirely this branch's.

Cross-checked on js-framework-benchmark

Against a vue-vapor entry pinned to 3.6.0-rc.4 (this branch's merge base),
identical app, both delegating — 25 rounds, script duration:

op rc.4 this branch Δ
swap rows 2.14 1.70 −20%
remove row 0.96 0.82 −15%
replace 1k 15.24 14.30 −6%
clear rows 20.76 19.82 −5%
create 10k 101.72 99.06 −3%
geometric mean 6.10 5.80 −5%

No benchmark regressed outside noise (all |t| < 2 except the wins above).

Move planning (not covered by js-framework-benchmark)

The keyed-diff rewrite targets reorder patterns jsfb doesn't measure. Wall time
for reordering 1,000 laid-out rows, old chain heuristic vs the new planner:

pattern before after DOM moves
move last row to front 22.6 1.7 (13×) 999 → 1
move middle row to front 500 → 1
shuffle 27.8 24.4 (−12%) 995 → 944
reverse (control) 21.0 20.2 (parity) 999 → 999
swap (jsfb gate) 1.3 1.4 (parity) 2 → 2

The old apply pass cascaded on backward moves — dragging one row toward the
front moved every row in between. reverse is the control: both algorithms
must move n−1 rows there and they tie, confirming the delta is move-count
driven, and swap confirms the jsfb-measured op does not regress.

Move counts are also no longer bounded away from the optimum by a coincidental
in-place match: [0..8] → [5,6,7,8,4,0,1,2,3] went from 8 moves to 5 (the
unbounded-LIS minimum), with the adversarial family [0..2m] → [m+1..2m, m, 0..m-1] previously approaching 2× the minimum.

Caveat

Because the row handlers go through delegation, neither harness exercises this
PR's removal of the discarded cleanup closure in the static on() path — that
change's benefit is not visible in these numbers.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • Bug Fixes

    • Improved keyed list reordering for more reliable DOM placement, including rows that render no elements.
    • Fixed teleport content positioning during keyed mid-list reordering.
    • Improved handling of transition placeholders and hydrated content during list updates.
  • Improvements

    • Improved event listener handling and radio input updates.
    • Reduced unnecessary work during rendering and list reconciliation.
    • Improved benchmark control and row interaction behavior.

- avoid per-item [item, key, index] tuple allocations in createFor:
  getItemValue + positional args, parallel queued arrays instead of
  MountOper/MoveOper objects, direct-build key index map
- enter item scopes via setCurrentScope instead of a per-row
  scope.run() closure
- create RenderEffect scheduler jobs lazily on first notify
- drop the per-listener cleanup closure in the static on() path and
  the default options object in on()/onBinding()

benchmark (packages-private/benchmark, 4x throttle, medians):
create 1k 21.8ms -> 19.3ms, append 1k 23.1 -> 20.3, create 10k 228 -> 190
The linked-list skip heuristic cascaded on backward moves: moving the
last row to the front performed n-1 DOM moves (each move broke the
adjacency link its predecessor's skip check relied on). Replace the
prev/next/prevAnchor chain with a bounded LIS over the queued set only:
in-place matched blocks split queued indices into segments whose
stationary neighbors bound the old-index range; per-segment patience
LIS picks the blocks that stay put.

- move counts are now optimal: move-to-front 22.6ms -> 1.7ms wall time
  on 1k laid-out rows, shuffle -12%; swap stays O(queued) so the
  js-framework-benchmark op does not regress (1.4 -> 1.2ms median)
- TransitionGroup keeps vdom ghost ordering (rows land before adjacent
  leaving ghosts) via a transition-gated ghost-node walk
- fix pre-existing NotFoundError: getBlockFirstNode on a Teleport row
  resolved into target content; now returns the main-view placeholder
- drop prev/next/prevAnchor from ForBlock and delete moveLink
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The PR revises keyed Vapor list reconciliation, adds teleport reordering coverage, changes event listener registration, lazily creates render-effect jobs, and delegates benchmark click handlers.

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Layer / File(s) Summary
Keyed createFor diff and mounting
packages/runtime-vapor/src/apiCreateFor.ts, packages/runtime-vapor/src/fragment.ts, packages/runtime-vapor/__tests__/for.spec.ts
Keyed updates use packed indices, normalized keys, LIS planning, explicit anchors, scope restoration, and indexed updates. Tests cover minimal moves and items with no DOM nodes.
Teleport-aware block placement and validation
packages/runtime-vapor/src/block.ts, packages/runtime-vapor/__tests__/components/Teleport.spec.ts
Block-first-node lookup handles teleport markers. Tests cover keyed teleport reordering and anchor preservation.

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Static and dynamic listener registration
packages/runtime-vapor/src/dom/event.ts, packages/runtime-vapor/src/directives/vModel.ts
Static listeners use native registration. Dynamic listeners retain effect cleanup. Radio model changes use a native change listener.
Delegated benchmark controls
packages-private/benchmark/client/AppVapor.vue
Benchmark controls and row selection or removal links use delegated click handlers.

Render effect scheduling

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Lazy RenderEffect job creation
packages/runtime-vapor/src/renderEffect.ts
Scheduler jobs are created in createJob() and cached when first required by notify().

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Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 082ea

This change rewrites keyed-list movement and runtime scheduling paths for performance, but deferred KeepAlive work may execute in the wrong settlement order, risking incorrect runtime behavior; the teleport regression check also does not verify row placement. These bounded correctness and test-readiness issues require owner follow-up before merge.

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  participant createFor
  participant ForBlock
  participant DOM
  renderList->>createFor: normalize values and keys
  createFor->>ForBlock: reuse or create blocks
  createFor->>DOM: update or mount blocks
  createFor->>DOM: resolve anchors and move blocks
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compiler-dom.global.prod.js 87.4 kB 30.6 kB 27 kB
runtime-dom.global.prod.js 116 kB 43.6 kB 38.9 kB
vue.global.prod.js 176 kB 63.7 kB 56.8 kB

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createApp (CAPI only) 52.7 kB 20.5 kB 18.7 kB
createApp 61.7 kB 23.8 kB 21.7 kB
createApp + vaporInteropPlugin 118 kB (+39 B) 42.3 kB (+18 B) 38 kB (-38 B)
createVaporApp 30.7 kB (+53 B) 11.8 kB (+20 B) 10.8 kB (+9 B)
createSSRApp 66.9 kB 25.9 kB 23.5 kB
createVaporSSRApp 36.1 kB (+53 B) 13.7 kB (+21 B) 12.6 kB (+13 B)
defineCustomElement 68.4 kB 25.9 kB 23.5 kB
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packages/runtime-vapor/__tests__/components/Teleport.spec.ts (1)

1919-1933: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Assert the main-view order, not only the anchor counts.

The comment at Line 1926 states that the moved row must resolve its anchor through the following row's main-view placeholder. The current assertions do not prove that. Anchor counts stay at 3 and target.textContent stays 'onetwothree' even if the moved row lands at the wrong main-view position, because the swap does not change target-side insertion order for a shared target.

Add an assertion on the main-view marker order so the test discriminates the fix from a regression. One option is to render a keyed marker next to each teleport and assert its order in host. Another is to capture the placeholder nodes per row and assert their document order.

Note also that countAnchors repeats the identical helper defined at Lines 1884-1886. Hoisting it to the enclosing describe removes the duplication.

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In `@packages/runtime-vapor/__tests__/components/Teleport.spec.ts` around lines
1919 - 1933, Strengthen the Teleport test by asserting the reordered rows’
main-view marker or placeholder document order after updating items, so it
verifies anchor resolution through the following row’s main-view placeholder
rather than only shared-target anchor counts. Also hoist the duplicated
countAnchors helper to the enclosing describe and remove the local copy.
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In `@packages/runtime-vapor/src/renderEffect.ts`:
- Around line 94-96: Set job.order from the effect’s ordering value before
caching and returning the job in the shown render-effect closure, so
settleDeferredKeepAliveUpdates() can sort buffered jobs by creation order.
Preserve the existing flags and this.job assignment behavior.

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In `@packages/runtime-vapor/__tests__/components/Teleport.spec.ts`:
- Around line 1919-1933: Strengthen the Teleport test by asserting the reordered
rows’ main-view marker or placeholder document order after updating items, so it
verifies anchor resolution through the following row’s main-view placeholder
rather than only shared-target anchor counts. Also hoist the duplicated
countAnchors helper to the enclosing describe and remove the local copy.
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The bounded LIS pins every in-place match, which keeps a far swap at
O(queued) but lets a coincidental match in the middle of a shuffled
range split the plan: old [0..8] -> [5,6,7,8,4,0,1,2,3] moved 8 blocks
where an unbounded LIS moves 5, and the ratio approaches 2x as the list
grows (old [0..2m] -> [m+1..2m, m, 0..m-1] moves 2m vs m+1).
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packages/runtime-vapor/src/apiCreateFor.ts (1)

880-896: 🚀 Performance & Scalability | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Replace the insertion sort with a linear merge of the two sorted runs.

queuedIndices is already ascending, and the appended stationary tail is also ascending. The insertion sort is therefore a merge of two sorted runs, but its cost is O(k·m) where k is the queued count and m is the appended count. The dense planner only guarantees span <= 2 * queuedLength, so m can approach queuedLength. For an interleaved dense permutation (queued at even indices, stationary matches at odd indices), each appended element shifts across most of the prefix, which makes this pass quadratic in list length on the hot path this PR optimizes.

A merge into scratch arrays keeps the pass O(k + m) and preserves the parallel-array alignment.

♻️ Proposed merge-based implementation
-// Restores ascending index order after the dense planner appended the
-// stationaries; both arrays move together. The appended tail is itself sorted
-// and usually short, so insertion sort runs near-linearly here.
-function sortQueueByIndex(indices: number[], oldIndices: number[]): void {
-  for (let i = 1; i < indices.length; i++) {
-    const index = indices[i]
-    const oldIndex = oldIndices[i]
-    let j = i - 1
-    while (j >= 0 && indices[j] > index) {
-      indices[j + 1] = indices[j]
-      oldIndices[j + 1] = oldIndices[j]
-      j--
-    }
-    indices[j + 1] = index
-    oldIndices[j + 1] = oldIndex
-  }
-}
+// Restores ascending index order after the dense planner appended the
+// stationaries. Both the head (`0..splitAt`) and the appended tail are already
+// ascending, so merge them in one linear pass; both arrays move together.
+function sortQueueByIndex(
+  indices: number[],
+  oldIndices: number[],
+  splitAt: number,
+): void {
+  const total = indices.length
+  const headIndices = indices.slice(0, splitAt)
+  const headOld = oldIndices.slice(0, splitAt)
+  let a = 0
+  let b = splitAt
+  let out = 0
+  while (a < splitAt && b < total) {
+    if (headIndices[a] <= indices[b]) {
+      indices[out] = headIndices[a]
+      oldIndices[out++] = headOld[a++]
+    } else {
+      indices[out] = indices[b]
+      oldIndices[out++] = oldIndices[b++]
+    }
+  }
+  while (a < splitAt) {
+    indices[out] = headIndices[a]
+    oldIndices[out++] = headOld[a++]
+  }
+}

Call site update at lines 384-387:

             if (queuedIndices.length !== queuedLength) {
-              sortQueueByIndex(queuedIndices, sources)
+              sortQueueByIndex(queuedIndices, sources, queuedLength)
               queuedLength = queuedIndices.length
             }
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In `@packages/runtime-vapor/src/apiCreateFor.ts` around lines 880 - 896, Replace
the insertion-sort implementation in sortQueueByIndex with a linear merge of the
existing ascending queued run and ascending appended stationary run, using
scratch arrays as needed; preserve ascending index order and keep each
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In `@packages/runtime-vapor/src/apiCreateFor.ts`:
- Around line 880-896: Replace the insertion-sort implementation in
sortQueueByIndex with a linear merge of the existing ascending queued run and
ascending appended stationary run, using scratch arrays as needed; preserve
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