docs(arch): caveat Windows first-paint budget with the WebView2 engine floor - #42
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…e floor KEL-62's attribution chain (bounds fix, harness fix, KEL-65 direct-COM A/B) shows the remaining ~1.6x overage on cold-start-to-first-paint is CreateCoreWebView2Controller's Chromium boot, not Keld code. Document the floor and the deferred prewarm+reparent lever (KEL-83) at the budget line instead of leaving the gap unexplained against the spec.
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| Windows/WebView2 cold start → first paint currently misses its ≤ 300 ms row by ~1.6x | ||
| (~470–510 ms measured), and that gap is not Keld's own cost: `CreateCoreWebView2Controller` | ||
| boots a Chromium process and is, per Microsoft, "the bulk of starting a WebView2 control" | ||
| (WebView2Feedback #1536) — Keld's attributable overhead is 3–6 ms (environment creation). | ||
| A controlled same-session A/B isolated and refuted the one remaining Keld-owned hypothesis | ||
| (wry's IPC-bridge injection); the direct-COM backend ties or leads Tauri on the identical | ||
| engine. Full attribution chain and raw numbers: KEL-62; direct-COM measurement: | ||
| `docs/engineering/budget-scoreboard.md` § "Windows first paint on the direct-COM backend". | ||
| The only supported lever past this floor is hidden-webview prewarm + `put_ParentWindow` | ||
| reparent — a memory-for-latency trade with no payoff for a bare hello window, deferred to | ||
| KEL-83 pending a real concurrent-init consumer (Bun boot) to overlap it against. | ||
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In `@docs/architecture/01-overview.md` around lines 200 - 211, Update the PR
documentation to include the actual outputs from cargo fmt --all --check, cargo
clippy --workspace --all-targets -- -D warnings, cargo nextest run --workspace
--profile ci, and both direct llms recipe commands, using the existing PR
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Summary
CreateCoreWebView2Controller's Chromium process boot — an external engine cost, not Keld's own code (Keld's attributable overhead is 3–6 ms).docs/architecture/01-overview.md§5 stated the ≤300 ms budget with no note that it's currently missed and why, on the one platform where root cause is now fully attributed. This landed the "state why" side of the code/spec-match rule (rootAGENTS.md): the budget line now cites the evidence chain and the deferred lever (KEL-83, hidden-webview prewarm + reparent) instead of sitting unexplained.Spec refs
docs/architecture/01-overview.md§5. Evidence: KEL-62, KEL-65,docs/engineering/budget-scoreboard.md§ "Windows first paint on the direct-COM backend (2026-08-15, controlled A/B, median of 7)".Review gates
None (docs-only: no unsafe, public API, permission, dependency, or wire-protocol change).
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Docs only — no platform-specific behavior.
Perf impact
None (no code changed). The PR documents an existing, already-measured Windows perf gap; it does not change any measured number.
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