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Scrolling is very expensive when Copilot diffs are showing #285459

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@Tyriar

Repro was just scrolling a relatively large file with 5x diff sections suggested by Copilot:

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Zooming in on one:

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Trace-20251230T125823.zip

This was the state of the editor I was scrolling:

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Obviously gpu acceleration would help here, but that will be opt-in for the foreseeable future. Would be good if we could make the DOM renderer not drop so many frames.

cc @rwoll

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