Find the subjects without stopping the window
"Find subjects" took the UI thread for two thirds of a second on a 22 MP frame — a proxy render, a readback and a YOLO pass through `ort` — and for that time the interface was simply gone. The panel apologised for it rather than hiding it: a "Looking…" label, and a 16 ms `single_shot` so the label reached the screen before the freeze began, with a comment saying the obvious fix needed the develop session restructured and was not being taken. The obstacle was never `Send`. `DevelopSession` is `Send` — the device, the source texture and the passes all are. What cannot go to a worker is the `Rc<RefCell<Option<DevelopSession>>>` that every callback in the window reaches through, and the window has to keep reaching through it while the work runs. Handing the session over would freeze the interface exactly as thoroughly as blocking on it did. So the work takes a copy of what it needs instead. A `SegmentationJob` is the device, the demosaiced source behind an `Arc`, and the name of the session that asked. Taking one is two `Arc` bumps; running one is 495 ms on this desktop; none of it touches the session, and there is deliberately no `&mut DevelopSession` in scope for a caller to hold across it. The proxy render travels with it rather than staying behind — a `GpuContext` and a texture handle are both `Send`, and the model was never the only expensive half. So does building the mask rasteriser, which is a shader compile: adopting the result was costing 23 ms, a dropped frame on the one redraw the user is waiting for, and the rasteriser is needed exactly when the subjects arrive and never before. What is left on the UI thread is a microsecond. The answer comes back through a channel a `slint::Timer` polls, which is the shape `apply_when_ready` already uses for a sidecar fetch. **A result can outlive the photograph it describes.** Two thirds of a second is long enough to press the button, think better of it and swipe to the next frame — and the result landing then would fill the panel with subjects that are not in the picture, drawing outlines around a dog two photographs back. Nothing downstream can tell: the masks rasterise and the overlay draws either way. So every session is minted with an id, a job carries the id it was taken from, and `delivery` compares the two before anything is applied. An id rather than a counter beside the session slot, because that slot is written from four places in `lib.rs` and the fifth would be the one that forgot. A discard touches nothing on the way out. `segmenting` belongs to whichever photograph is open now, which may well have a run of its own going, and clearing it would re-enable a button that is correctly insensitive. One run at a time, and abandonment is what stops that being a trap. A job left over from a photograph the user has left is displaced rather than waited for — otherwise the next frame's "Find subjects" would do nothing for the length of a run nobody wants, which is the wait this exists to remove. `ort` offers no way into the inference, so abandoning is checked at the seams there are: before the job starts, and between the readback and the model. Abandoned early it costs nothing, abandoned mid-inference it costs the run it was already committed to, and either way the answer is dropped at the channel. `DevelopSession::segment` survives as a test-only convenience. Left public it is precisely the shape that put two thirds of a second on the UI thread in the first place, and the next caller would reach for it. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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//! runs **once per image, when the user asks**, and never on the frame path.
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//! Every interaction it enables — click a subject, grow a mask, change a
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//! falloff — reads its cached output.
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//!
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//! All of it is on a worker. [`compute`] takes an owned buffer and a
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//! `GpuContext`, which is what makes that possible — nothing here touches the
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//! develop session, and [`crate::develop::SegmentationJob`] is the piece that
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//! carries the proxy render across with it.
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use std::sync::Arc;
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