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Scrollable overflow measurement repeatedly walked the same containing-block subtrees, making the work quadratic.

Cache each box’s overflow contribution relative to its padding box so it can survive subtree movement. Associate cached data with the immutable layout fragment that produced it, preserving results for replayed fragments while invalidating them whenever ancestor or viewport relayout computes new geometry.

After full layout, eagerly measure only the viewport, scroll containers, and boxes with active scroll offsets. Other boxes are measured recursively or lazily when their overflow rectangle is requested.

This reduces StyleBench scrollable overflow work from approximately 943 ms to 85 ms.

Add comprehensive measurement coverage and a cold-versus-primed cache oracle exercising percentage sizing, constraints, transforms, text wrapping, flex and grid layout, nested scrollers, containment, writing modes, aspect ratios, tree rebuilds, containing-block changes, and viewport resizing.

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  • Libraries/LibWeb/Painting/Paintable.h
  • Libraries/LibWeb/Painting/SVGForeignObjectPaintable.h

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The change adds fragment identities and propagates them through layout commits to invalidate cached overflow data. Paintables store cached padding-relative overflow and expose overflow queries. Document separates full-layout and subtree commits, performs eager overflow measurement, clears stale caches, and reclamps scroll offsets. Scrollable-overflow measurement reuses valid cached data and avoids unnecessary transforms. New tests cover cache validity, resizing, writing directions, dynamic mutations, and varied layout scenarios.

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  participant LayoutCommit
  participant Document
  participant Paintable
  participant ScrollableOverflow
  LayoutCommit->>Document: Commit full or subtree layout
  Document->>Paintable: Clear invalid cached overflow
  Document->>ScrollableOverflow: Measure required overflow boxes
  ScrollableOverflow->>Paintable: Store measured overflow data
  Document->>Paintable: Clamp affected scroll offsets
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This change caches scrollable overflow measurements to reduce layout cost while covering cache invalidation and complex layout scenarios; no actionable merge-blocking risk remains after normal checks and review.

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Cover propagation through visible overflow, clipping, containment,
positioned and transformed descendants, line fragments, padding, nested
scroll containers, replaced SVG viewports, and physical directions.

Compare primed overflow caches with cold measurements after indirect
size and placement changes. Exercise percentages, constraints,
transforms, text wrapping, flex, grid, nested scrollers, writing modes,
inherited metrics, aspect ratios, tree rebuilds, containing blocks,
and viewport resize.

Exercise dynamic style and layout changes, insertion and removal,
reused subtree movement, scroll range updates, offset clamping, and
cached atomic inlines with padding and borders.

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In `@Libraries/LibWeb/Painting/Paintable.cpp`:
- Around line 1178-1183: Update Paintable::has_scrollable_overflow() to call
document().ensure_scrollable_overflow_is_measured() before reading
m_overflow_data or m_cached_overflow_data, matching scrollable_overflow_rect()
while preserving the existing flag lookup and return behavior.
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  • Libraries/LibWeb/DOM/Document.cpp
  • Libraries/LibWeb/DOM/Document.h
  • Libraries/LibWeb/Layout/LayoutRustBridge.cpp
  • Libraries/LibWeb/Layout/Node.cpp
  • Libraries/LibWeb/Layout/ScrollableOverflow.cpp
  • Libraries/LibWeb/Painting/Paintable.cpp
  • Libraries/LibWeb/Painting/Paintable.h
  • Libraries/LibWeb/Rust/src/layout/commit.rs
  • Libraries/LibWeb/Rust/src/layout/fragment_tree.rs
  • Tests/LibWeb/Text/expected/css/scrollable-overflow-cache-validity.txt
  • Tests/LibWeb/Text/expected/css/scrollable-overflow-cache-viewport-resize.txt
  • Tests/LibWeb/Text/expected/css/scrollable-overflow-measurement-directions.txt
  • Tests/LibWeb/Text/expected/css/scrollable-overflow-measurement-dynamic.txt
  • Tests/LibWeb/Text/expected/css/scrollable-overflow-measurement.txt
  • Tests/LibWeb/Text/input/css/scrollable-overflow-cache-validity.html
  • Tests/LibWeb/Text/input/css/scrollable-overflow-cache-viewport-resize.html
  • Tests/LibWeb/Text/input/css/scrollable-overflow-measurement-directions.html
  • Tests/LibWeb/Text/input/css/scrollable-overflow-measurement-dynamic.html
  • Tests/LibWeb/Text/input/css/scrollable-overflow-measurement.html

Comment thread Libraries/LibWeb/Painting/Paintable.cpp
Cache contributions relative to each padding box, so valid results can
survive subtree movement. Invalidate them from layout and overflow dirt,
including containing-block ancestors.

Associate entries with the immutable layout fragment that produced them.
Preserve them when layout replays that fragment. Discard them when an
ancestor or viewport relayout commits newly computed geometry.

After full layout, start measurement only from the viewport, scroll
containers and active scroll offsets. Recursive traversal reuses local
caches, while isolated boxes are measured lazily when requested.

Skip atomic inline boxes when their cached overflow is covered by the
committed line fragment. Avoid stale overflow diffs after full layout,
since that layout reset all paintable overflow state.

Reduce StyleBench scrollable overflow work from about 943 ms to 85 ms
while preserving metrics across clipping and containment barriers.
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