Measured first: a scratch scaling probe (seed -> export -> load/preview/apply
into a fresh target and over itself, in-memory provider, every repository
call counted, DetectChanges counted via ChangeTracker.DetectingAllChanges)
showed load, preview and the instance pass scale linearly (500 / 1000 / 2000
instances apply in 0.13 / 0.27 / 0.35 s), but the post-flush template
rewire passes were quadratic: 100 / 400 / 800 composing, derived templates
applied in 0.5 / 8.1 / 26.5 s, with DetectChanges running 5N+10 times and
GetTemplateWithChildrenAsync 2N+2 times.
Cause: ResolveAlarmScriptLinksAsync, ResolveCompositionEdgesAsync and
ResolveInheritanceEdgesAsync found each template with
_dbContext.Templates.Local.FirstOrDefault(...) - per template, and per
composition edge / base lookup. Every DbSet.Local access runs a full
DetectChanges over everything the import has staged. The first two passes
also re-read every template's children one query at a time (a split query
per call on SQL Server).
Fix (no bundle-format or semantic change):
- each pass indexes the tracked templates by name once
(SnapshotLocalTemplatesByName; ordinal, first wins like FirstOrDefault).
These passes never stage a template or rename one, so the index stays
exact for the pass;
- the alarm and composition passes read their templates' children in one
batched GetTemplatesWithChildrenAsync, matched back by the stub's id;
- the alarm pass only loads templates whose bundled alarms name an
on-trigger script (the only ones it can rewire).
Result on the same probe: 100 / 400 / 800 templates apply in
0.13 / 0.62 / 0.64 s; DetectChanges is a constant 9; per-template children
reads 0, batched reads 1 (add) / 2 (overwrite).
Evidence: ImportApplyScalingTests (Transport.IntegrationTests) exports 5 and
40 composing, derived templates with alarm -> script links, imports each
into an empty target (Add) and again (Overwrite), and asserts the imported
inheritance / composition / alarm-script links, zero per-template children
reads, at most 3 batched reads, and an identical DetectChanges count for 5
and 40 templates. Fails on the old importer (12 per-template reads), and
with a per-DTO Local snapshot reintroduced in one pass (DetectChanges 51
vs 16). Transport unit (198) and integration (138) suites pass.
Not changed: preview's per-name lookups for database connections,
notification lists and API methods stay per-name - moving them to an
in-memory ordinal match could change name matching under a case-insensitive
SQL collation.
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01GT67AEHd2Acv1YPwGfXEoV
Joseph Doherty
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