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The Conductor Rewrite: What They Changed to Make It Fast
Conductor is a local-first React app wrapped in Tauri with SQLite as its source of truth, and it was rebuilt to be twice as fast. After shimming Tauri's invoke() bridge to profile in Chrome (since React DevTools can't run in WebKit), the fixes were migrating to TanStack Router for stable references, virtualizing the chat with react-virtuoso plus React.memo, switching agent processes to Bun, and moving the git checkpoint off the critical path.
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