I just opened my laptop for the morning coffee :coffee: to this little beauty. [CleanShot 2026-01-08 at 06.34.01@2x] I’m no stranger to 4 - 5 GB usage, but this is odd. Most of the times when it reaches 4 GB the editor starts weirding out and then crashes. Any one else experiencing things like t…

[image] georgecollier: References like “Parent group’s thing” are unnecessary Is each instance generating and/or running a JS function over and over again?

Any expression evaluation incurs complexity (our abstraction which deals approximately with compute)

[image] georgecollier: References like “Parent group’s thing” are unnecessary. It’s generally used to pass data down groups, but any situation where you DO use that, you can also just reference the element directory, avoiding chain of parent group’s X that serves no purpose other than to get dat…

[image] georgecollier: References like “Parent group’s thing” are unnecessary. It’s generally used to pass data down groups, but any situation where you DO use that, you can also just reference the element directory I feel like this isn’t true or else I wouldn’t do it, but I’ll take your word…

[image] randomanon: I feel like this isn’t true or else I wouldn’t do it, but I’ll take your word for it. It is :smiley: If you’re referencing Parent group’s thing, you can logically just reference whatever Parent group’s Thing is referencing (or whatever THAT is referencing, right up to the…

[image] randomanon: I feel like this isn’t true or else I wouldn’t do it You should have stopped in September of 2024 [image] Do Not Overuse Parent Groups Thing Tips I made this mistake when I first got started. For the past 5 years now, I’ve been avoid…

[image] georgecollier: you can also just reference the element directory, avoiding chain of parent group’s X that serves no purpose other than to get data from a superparent to a child, and adds compute intensity to evaluate all of those expressions. To be clear this isn’t gonna be a huge of …

[image] georgecollier: Like if you got rid of 10,000 of those references, the performance improvement probably wouldn’t exceed the error bars of however you’re measurning it Hey @georgecollier , just curious on your post - are these casuing meaningful impact in how you’re measuring it in the …

[image] georgecollier: This is true for every case (though will happily be disproven by a counterexample :wink: ) I 100% believe you, I just remember there was a case where parent groups were necessary in the context of a repeating group but it could be a GPT hallucination.

[image] randomanon: , I just remember there was a case where parent groups were necessary in the context of a repeating group but it could be a GPT hallucination. Likely GPT not knowing all tricks. Inside RG can still reference another group. I put one group called Selector then inside it I …

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