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⚡ Bolt: optimize dashboard clock and time zones#90

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💡 What: Optimized the dashboard clock and time zone display in index.html.

🎯 Why: The original implementation repeatedly called toLocaleTimeString and toLocaleDateString (which are expensive because they instantiate Intl objects) and used innerHTML to rebuild entire DOM subtrees every second, leading to unnecessary layout and parsing overhead.

📊 Impact:

  • Execution Speed: Reduced updateTime execution duration from ~1.83ms to ~0.017ms per call (approx. 100x faster).
  • DOM Efficiency: Replaced full container re-renders with targeted textContent updates.
  • Resource Usage: Caches formatters and DOM references, and skips date updates when unchanged (dirty-checking).

🔬 Measurement: Verified using a Playwright-based benchmark script calling updateTime 1000 times in a loop. Visual parity confirmed via Playwright screenshots.


PR created automatically by Jules for task 17791100830354043568 started by @babelman97

- Caches Intl.DateTimeFormat instances to avoid expensive object creation.
- Caches DOM references in a closure for O(1) access.
- Replaces innerHTML with targeted textContent updates for better performance and security.
- Implements dirty-checking for the date string to minimize redundant DOM updates.
- Measured ~100x speedup in updateTime execution (from ~1.83ms to ~0.017ms per call).

Co-authored-by: babelman97 <[email protected]>
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