Notable perf regression on continuous single step on macOS due to memory region pulling
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Since Aug 13, 2026.
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I cant tell when it started to happen, but I noticed that if I simply press and hold F7, the single step is observably slower than stable 5.3
We should 1) investigate the root cause of the slow down, 2) set up a test for the single step performance
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