The mailbox list observed the entire `messages` table (observeSummaries, no
WHERE/LIMIT), mapped every cached row to a domain Message, and filtered down to
the visible account+folder in MailboxViewModel — so its cost scaled with the
whole cache and re-ran on every write to `messages` (IDLE delivery, a flag
toggle, a backfill page, any folder sync). On a 20k-row cache that is ~125 ms of
work per unrelated write.
Push the account/folder filter into SQL (observeFolderSummaries /
observeUnifiedFolderSummaries, exposed via observeFolderMessages /
observeUnifiedFolderMessages) and flatMapLatest the ViewModel over the selected
account+folder. The only remaining client-side pass separates the normal list
from an active search over the small folder-scoped set.
Validated on an emulator against 1k/5k/20k-row caches (docs/perf/issue-86-
profiling.md): the account-scoped query is ~1.5 ms flat (~80x faster at 20k) and
is already served by the existing (accountId, folder, uid) index — so NO
composite index and NO schema migration are added. The ticket's proposed
(accountId, folder, inInbox, timestampMillis) index changes timing only within
noise and isn't even preferred by SQLite's planner. The unified "All inboxes"
view stays an O(N) folder scan (still 5.6x better) and is a follow-up for paging;
IMAP latency on folder open is a separate, unmeasured concern.
Closes#86
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
