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Greg Pomerantz 2f4768f354 Fix 120Hz scroll jank end-to-end: render-ahead present + full-cache eviction off the UI thread
Three root causes, all fixed and verified on the Pixel 9 Pro:

1. Present phase (backend + renderer): VSYNC_LOCKED_RENDER defers the
   render to the vsync wake; RENDER_AHEAD presents the previous frame at
   the start of render() (phase = wake + ~1.1 ms) and holds the new
   frame one slot. Crash fix: a held wgpu frame must be PRESENTED, never
   merely dropped, before the next acquire (AlreadyAcquired panic at
   launch otherwise); discard_pending_frame presents too.

2. Full-res prefetch churn (src/lib.rs): the 8-slot full cache cycled
   through a ~20-cell viewport forever (137 decodes/20 s) and each
   eviction free()'d a 50 MB Vec on the UI thread (20-52 ms CPU spikes,
   ~7/s = the residual SLOWEV NonMain jank). Fix: 60 s tombstone
   cooldown on evicted paths (idle prefetch skips, urgent tap bypasses)
   + off-thread reaper for the freed blobs (insert: 21 ms -> 4 us).

3. (earlier) Skia final flush + Mailbox present mode (vendor, M3).

Instrumentation (all behind --features perf): OTHR/INVK/INVK_TAG/FLCK
lines for cross-thread closure timing and push-site tagging.

Warm measured swipe, 8580-file grid: cadence median 8.33 ms (exact
120 Hz), p99 15.5 ms, 5/552 gaps >16.7 ms (0.9%, max 28.3 ms, zero
>33 ms); PRES phase median ~994 us, zero late frames. Docs updated
(docs/BUGS/scroll-jank-120hz.md, full scorecard + line reference).

Also: vendored i-slint-core + wgpu-hal (vkshim interposition patch),
vkshim profiling tooling, backend made a non-optional dep, debuggable
flag for simpleperf (REMOVE before shipping).
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gallery

A high-performance image gallery for Android (primary), Linux and macOS — Rust + Slint 1.18.

Status: M1 (metadata scan + DB) done. See HANDOFF.md — the development hand-off with the full plan: architecture, thumbnail pipeline, milestones M1–M7, Slint gotchas, permission flow, and performance targets. Next: M2 (thumbnail engine).

Build

./scripts/build.sh debug     # debug x86_64 APK + install on emulator
./scripts/build.sh           # release x86_64 (emulator)
./scripts/build.sh aarch64   # release aarch64 (device)
cargo run                    # desktop (Linux needs libfontconfig1 + pkg-config)

Requires: Rust (rustup), cargo-apk2, Android SDK + NDK 27 (see HANDOFF.md §3 for exact paths/env).

License

GPL-3.0 (see LICENSE). Built on Slint, used under the Slint royalty-free license for proprietary apps (see HANDOFF.md §10.4).