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How Figma made copy + paste faster

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  1. 0:00Pasting one variable component shouldn't make Figma drag the whole component along,
  2. 0:03but that's how it can feel today.
  3. 0:05We fixed that and a bunch of other things on the copy-paste path.
  4. 0:09Hi, I'm Diane, an engineer at Figma focused on performance.
  5. 0:12Copy and paste sounds like a solved problem until you're working in a real production use case.
  6. 0:17A component can have hundreds of states and a frame can be full of nested instances.
  7. 0:21We've heard that in some cases copy and paste can take up to seconds.
  8. 0:24So we put in some work and here are three changes I want to highlight.
  9. 0:27The biggest one is state group rehydration.
  10. 0:30State groups are how a component carries all of its variants, every size, theme, and breakpoint.
  11. 0:35The problem is when you copy one used variant, Figma used to copy all of them.
  12. 0:39Now, copy writes only the variants you actually use, and paste fills in the rest in the background from the files published to copy in S3.
  13. 0:46On a component with over 1,000 states, paste went from 2 seconds to 400 milliseconds.
  14. 0:50Copy went from 700 plus milliseconds to about 50, 15 times faster.
  15. 0:55the work you feel is fast, and we handled the details behind the scenes.
  16. 0:59Second, we stripped expensive observers off the copy path.
  17. 1:03Every node you copy used to drag along a chain of subscriptions and dependency walks that copy didn't actually need.
  18. 1:08We cleaned those up so even if you're not working in giant components,
  19. 1:11the long-tailed copies that used to make Figma feel like it was dragging should be noticeably lighter.
  20. 1:16Third, we made paste feel faster, not just be faster.
  21. 1:20We made two changes.
  22. 1:21We deferred the heavy bookkeeping that runs after paste, so the pasted content appears
  23. 1:25on your canvas sooner, even when total paste time is the same.
  24. 1:29The moment of arrival is earlier, and on heavy paste, the loading spinner now shows up faster,
  25. 1:33so you know the Figma heard you.
  26. 1:35We built these changes for the real-life headaches you've been working with, the complex files
  27. 1:39with components with hundreds of variants, the one with all of your product screens.
  28. 1:44That's all for today, but there's more coming.
  29. 1:46Let us know in the comments what you'd like to see next.
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