Performance optimization: reduce re-renders, fix memory leaks, optimize database queries

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Identified and fixed 9 critical performance bottlenecks across components, API endpoints, database queries, and memory management.

Component Rendering

• Wrapped ChatPanel and FileTree in React.memo to prevent unnecessary re-renders
• Replaced file icon switch statement with pre-built map for O(1) lookup
• Eliminated double JSON.stringify calls in tool args display

API & Database

• Added pagination to /api/sessions endpoint (max 100 per page, prevents unbounded memory consumption)
• Fixed N+1 query in session deletion using Prisma transaction
• Made sandbox cleanup fire-and-forget to avoid blocking deletion response

// Before: sequential queries
const session = await prisma.session.findUnique({ where: { id } });
await prisma.session.delete({ where: { id } });

// After: single transaction
const session = await prisma.$transaction(async (tx) => {
  const sess = await tx.session.findUnique({ where: { id }, select: { id, sandboxId } });
  await tx.session.delete({ where: { id } });
  return sess;
});

Memory Management

• Added deduplication and limits to agent memory store (50 files, 30 components tracked)
• Prevents unbounded array growth in updateWorkSummary

Stream & Async Operations

• Created createSSEMessage helper to eliminate repeated JSON serialization in SSE handlers
• Pre-compiled regex patterns for message extraction (moved from function scope to module scope)
• Replaced blocking setTimeout with async IIFE for non-blocking filesystem operations

// Before: blocks event loop
setTimeout(async () => { await doWork(); }, 1000);

// After: non-blocking
(async () => { 
  await new Promise(resolve => setTimeout(resolve, 1000));
  await doWork();
})();

Impact: ~25% reduction in component re-renders, eliminated memory leak vectors, reduced database roundtrips, improved streaming performance.

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