feat: high-performance web terminal with asyncio-native I/O
Complete rewrite of the terminal pipeline for VS Code Server-level
responsiveness. Key improvements:
Backend:
- Replace blocking select.select(0.1) with asyncio.add_reader() for
event-driven PTY reading (eliminates ~110ms polling latency)
- Add output batching (2ms window) to reduce WebSocket frame overhead
- Add flow control: client acks processed bytes, server pauses PTY reads
at 64KB threshold, resumes at 32KB
- Add 5s ack timeout fallback to prevent stuck sessions
Frontend:
- Switch WebSocket to binary mode (binaryType = 'arraybuffer')
- Eliminate Blob -> arrayBuffer async conversion overhead
- Add flow control ack messages (every 4096 bytes or 100ms)
- Add xterm-addon-webgl with graceful DOM fallback
- Add performance tuning (scrollback=10000, fastScrollSensitivity)
SDD artifacts:
- openspec/explorations/terminal-responsiveness.md
- openspec/proposals/terminal-responsiveness.md
- openspec/specs/terminal-responsiveness.md
- openspec/designs/terminal-responsiveness.md
- openspec/tasks/terminal-responsiveness.md
Quality gates: pytest (19 passed, 1 skipped), tsc --noEmit clean
Alex Blank
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