Top-down load animations makes work slow

[Vinit-source]

Type: Performance Issue

Top-down load animations makes work slow. Please consider removing it like how Cursor has done it.

Extension version: 0.26.7 VS Code version: Code 1.99.3 (Universal) (17baf841131aa23349f217ca7c570c76ee87b957, 2025-04-15T23:18:46.076Z) OS version: Darwin x64 22.6.0 Modes:

Logs

Info: Enablement state of the vscode.git extension: true.
Info: Successfully registered Git commit message provider.
Info: Logged in as Vinit-source
Trace: CodeSearchRepoTracker.tryInitGitRepos(): started
Trace: CodeSearchRepoTracker.tryInitGitRepos(): Found initial repos: [].
Debug: [context keys] Updating context keys.
Trace: CodeSearchRepoTracker.tryInitGitRepos(): Complete
Info: Got Copilot token for Vinit-source
Debug: [LanguageModelAccess] UPDATING language models
Trace: Resolving embedding model
Trace: Should request permissive session upgrade: false - already have permissive session
Info: copilot token chat_enabled: true, sku: free_educational_quota
Info: GitHub.vscode-pull-request-github extension is not yet activated.
Info: Registering default platform agent...
Debug: onDidChangeSessionsHandler has token: true
Debug: [context keys] Updating context keys.
Trace: Resolving embedding model
Info: Fetched model metadata in 1236ms 48875512-644b-4af7-88c7-5926ca2b7d45
Trace: Resolved embedding model
Trace: Resolved embedding model
Info: activationBlocker from 'languageModelAccess' took for 1892ms
Trace: Resolving chat model
Trace: Resolved chat model
Debug: [LanguageModelAccess] ADDED language model gpt-3.5-turbo
Debug: [LanguageModelAccess] ADDED language model gpt-4o-mini
Debug: [LanguageModelAccess] ADDED language model gpt-4
Debug: [LanguageModelAccess] ADDED language model gpt-4-0125-preview
Debug: [LanguageModelAccess] ADDED language model gpt-4.1
Debug: [LanguageModelAccess] ADDED language model gpt-4o
Debug: [LanguageModelAccess] ADDED language model o3-mini
Debug: [LanguageModelAccess] ADDED language model claude-3.5-sonnet
Debug: [LanguageModelAccess] ADDED language model claude-3.7-sonnet
Debug: [LanguageModelAccess] ADDED language model claude-3.7-sonnet-thought
Debug: [LanguageModelAccess] ADDED language model claude-sonnet-4
Debug: [LanguageModelAccess] ADDED language model gemini-2.0-flash-001
Debug: [LanguageModelAccess] ADDED language model gemini-2.5-pro
Debug: [LanguageModelAccess] ADDED language model o4-mini
Debug: [LanguageModelAccess] DID UPDATE language models
Debug: [LanguageModelAccess] UPDATING language models
Trace: Resolving chat model
Trace: Resolved chat model
Debug: [LanguageModelAccess] DID UPDATE language models
Debug: [context keys] Window state change. Needs offline check: false, active: true, focused: false.
Debug: [context keys] Window state change. Needs offline check: false, active: false, focused: false.
Debug: [context keys] Window state change. Needs offline check: false, active: false, focused: true.
Debug: [context keys] Window state change. Needs offline check: false, active: false, focused: false.
Debug: [context keys] Window state change. Needs offline check: false, active: false, focused: true.
Debug: [context keys] Window state change. Needs offline check: false, active: false, focused: false.
Debug: [context keys] Window state change. Needs offline check: false, active: false, focused: true.
Debug: [context keys] Window state change. Needs offline check: false, active: true, focused: true.

System Info

Item	Value
CPUs	Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-7660U CPU @ 2.50GHz (4 x 2500)
GPU Status	2d_canvas: enabled canvas_oop_rasterization: enabled_on direct_rendering_display_compositor: disabled_off_ok gpu_compositing: enabled multiple_raster_threads: enabled_on opengl: enabled_on rasterization: enabled raw_draw: disabled_off_ok skia_graphite: disabled_off video_decode: enabled video_encode: enabled webgl: enabled webgl2: enabled webgpu: enabled webnn: disabled_off
Load (avg)	6, 4, 5
Memory (System)	16.00GB (0.19GB free)
Process Argv	--crash-reporter-id 81c5d751-ffdf-4dda-adee-89744758b38a
Screen Reader	no
VM	0%

Process Info

CPU %	Mem MB	   PID	Process
   18	   229	  1601	code main
    4	    82	  1609	   gpu-process
    0	    33	  1610	   utility-network-service
    1	   131	  1639	shared-process
    0	     0	  6017	     /bin/ps -ax -o pid=,ppid=,pcpu=,pmem=,command=
    0	    66	  1949	ptyHost
    3	   328	  5966	window [3] (Welcome)
    0	    66	  5967	fileWatcher [3]
    0	   541	  5968	extensionHost [3]
    0	    49	  5980	     /private/var/folders/lg/vkrz5gv12pl90b8_r_p0xpvr0000gp/T/AppTranslocation/FAC7D7AC-8D38-4A4E-B268-45DDF4F315AF/d/Visual Studio Code.app/Contents/Frameworks/Code Helper (Plugin).app/Contents/MacOS/Code Helper (Plugin) /private/var/folders/lg/vkrz5gv12pl90b8_r_p0xpvr0000gp/T/AppTranslocation/FAC7D7AC-8D38-4A4E-B268-45DDF4F315AF/d/Visual Studio Code.app/Contents/Resources/app/extensions/json-language-features/server/dist/node/jsonServerMain --node-ipc --clientProcessId=5968

Workspace Info

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[vs-code-engineering[bot]]

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Happy Coding!

[dews]

Do only the built-in models have this feature? The BYOK models still include top-down loading animations.

[justschen]

i'm not sure I understand. can you clarify what you mean by "Top-down load animations"? is this not what cursor does as well?