Recent update made opening chats very slow
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- Rust
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Description
What version of the Codex App are you using (From “About Codex” dialog)?
26.908.70816
What subscription do you have?
Pro
What platform is your computer?
Darwin 24.6.0 arm64 arm
What issue are you seeing?
The two most recent updates made it so that clicking on a chat to open it now takes several seconds (about 10-15 seconds), regardless of thread length.
Restarting the app or computer does not fix the issue.
What steps can reproduce the bug?
Click on a chat to open it.
What is the expected behavior?
Chats should open near instantaneously.
Additional information
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Research direction
Reproduce this in the Codex App on Darwin 24.6.0 arm64 by clicking a chat and measuring the roughly 10–15 second opening delay. Compare behavior across the two most recent updates and after restarting the app or computer. Done means chats open near instantaneously regardless of thread length.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- rust
- Domain
- desktop, performance
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Active
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100