From e4ebd082cef45da9a165e90f459ece1bab3ee329 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Daniel Imms <2193314+Tyriar@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Mon, 25 May 2026 17:41:58 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] perf(addon-search): cache lowercased line text in line cache

Lazily store a lowercased line variant in the line cache entry to avoid
repeated toLowerCase calls during case-insensitive searches.

Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>
---
 addons/addon-search/src/SearchEngine.ts    | 12 +++++++++++-
 addons/addon-search/src/SearchLineCache.ts |  6 +++++-
 2 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/addons/addon-search/src/SearchEngine.ts b/addons/addon-search/src/SearchEngine.ts
index 3f4efb0cd..c14822d21 100644
--- a/addons/addon-search/src/SearchEngine.ts
+++ b/addons/addon-search/src/SearchEngine.ts
@@ -292,7 +292,17 @@ export class SearchEngine {
     let searchStringLine = stringLine;
     if (!searchOptions.regex) {
       searchTerm = searchOptions.caseSensitive ? term : term.toLowerCase();
-      searchStringLine = searchOptions.caseSensitive ? stringLine : stringLine.toLowerCase();
+      if (searchOptions.caseSensitive) {
+        searchStringLine = stringLine;
+      } else {
+        let lowerLine = cache[2];
+        if (!lowerLine) {
+          lowerLine = stringLine.toLowerCase();
+          cache[2] = lowerLine;
+          this._lineCache.setLineInCache(row, cache);
+        }
+        searchStringLine = lowerLine;
+      }
     }
 
     let resultIndex = -1;
diff --git a/addons/addon-search/src/SearchLineCache.ts b/addons/addon-search/src/SearchLineCache.ts
index 526f4bfcc..714b52203 100644
--- a/addons/addon-search/src/SearchLineCache.ts
+++ b/addons/addon-search/src/SearchLineCache.ts
@@ -15,7 +15,11 @@ export type LineCacheEntry = [
   /**
    * The offsets where each line starts when the entry describes a wrapped line.
    */
-  lineOffsets: number[]
+  lineOffsets: number[],
+  /**
+   * Lowercased line text for case-insensitive searches, lazily populated.
+   */
+  lineAsLower?: string
 ];
 
 /**