jupyter / jupyter/notebook

Improve performance in big notebooks

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Jupyter Notebook
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Description

Cells that are not visible should not be rendered at all in the browser.

This way, we should be able to have a notebook with a billion cells (ignoring the issue of scrolling to a specific one...), because all that are not visible would be paged out to disk and represented by a single number describing their height (if that).

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Research direction

No files, tests, or entry points are named. Start by clarifying the notebook rendering and paging design described in the issue, including how off-screen cells are represented. Done means off-screen cells are not rendered while visible cells remain usable at very large cell counts.

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Assessment

Tech stack
jupyter-notebook
Domain
frontend, performance
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Needs clarification
Newbie friendliness
25/100

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