Dragging a morph in Livelymerge used to cost four Automerge ops per pointer move. At 30 fps, that's 120 ops/sec, bloating the document forever. Even worse, the morph's movement looked jerky to everyone else. Now it costs zero ops, and it's smoooooooth.

We put a live programming system's entire heap inside an Automerge document — every object, class, method shared + persistent. It all worked, but it was sloooow. New lab note with @daningalls and @pvh on the optimizations that made Livelymerge 64× faster: inkandswitch.com/livelymerge…

This week in Livelymerge, @daningalls gives us a tour of Morphic: the scene graph, halos, text editing, and programming tools of the live, malleable kernel that lives inside an Automerge document. inkandswitch.com/livelymerge…