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More fine grained dirty marking

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Description

Currently a node's dirty flag propagates to the root of the tree ensuring that when any node is invalidated its whole subtree will be re-calculated. This is often times not needed. There are many properties which only effects a node's children and would not need to propagate all the way to the root such as align-items. Also in cases where the style does change layout it may not need to propagate all the way to the root but can often stop at the nearest position: absolute parent.

This change has the potential of greatly improving performance of re-calculating a tree.

This might require adding a second dirty flag named hasDirtyChildren ensuring that traversal still works even though a parent is not marked as dirty.

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Research direction

Start by tracing how a node's dirty flag propagates during style invalidation, using the align-items example and the handling of position: absolute parents as boundaries. Determine how a separate hasDirtyChildren state would preserve traversal while limiting recalculation; done means localized invalidation remains correct and the tree recalculates less work.

Written by the indexing model from the issue text.

Assessment

Tech stack
cpp
Domain
performance
Issue type
Refactor
Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Mostly clear
Newbie friendliness
30/100

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