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⚡ Optimize DOM traversal in i18n replacement#31

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⚡ Optimize DOM traversal in i18n replacement#31
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💡 What:

  • Replaced document.querySelectorAll('*') with document.createTreeWalker(document.documentElement, NodeFilter.SHOW_ELEMENT) in replaceI18nPlaceholders.
  • Optimized attribute iteration by using a standard for loop over el.attributes instead of Array.from(el.attributes).forEach.
  • Updated tests/utils.test.js to expose NodeFilter in the test environment.

🎯 Why:

  • document.querySelectorAll('*') forces the browser to visit every node and create a static NodeList, which is O(N) memory and time.
  • TreeWalker allows traversing the DOM without allocating a large list of nodes.
  • Avoiding Array.from for attributes reduces temporary object allocation during traversal.

📊 Measured Improvement:

  • Baseline: ~101ms (average over 5 runs with 5000 elements in JSDOM)
  • Optimized: ~68ms (average over 5 runs with 5000 elements in JSDOM)
  • Improvement: ~33% reduction in execution time.

PR created automatically by Jules for task 507795617736555274 started by @cmuench

Replaced `document.querySelectorAll('*')` with `document.createTreeWalker` to avoid creating a large NodeList and improve iteration performance.
Optimized attribute iteration to use a standard for loop instead of `Array.from` to reduce memory allocation.
Added `NodeFilter` to test globals to support TreeWalker testing.

Co-authored-by: cmuench <211294+cmuench@users.noreply.github.com>
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@cmuench cmuench merged commit 8b5ee63 into main Feb 26, 2026
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