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💡 What:
Replaced .to_lowercase() with .eq_ignore_ascii_case() in crates/forktty-ui-gtk/src/socket_cli/hooks/event.rs inside the is_truthy_env function. Changed map(...).unwrap_or(false) to is_some_and(...).

🎯 Why:
The original implementation used .to_lowercase(), which allocates a new String on the heap every time an environment variable is evaluated for truthiness, just to perform a case-insensitive comparison against ASCII literals ("1", "true", "yes"). Using eq_ignore_ascii_case performs this comparison in-place without any allocation.

📊 Impact:
Micro-benchmarks show this reduces the time per check from ~250-300ns down to ~150ns (a ~40% reduction) and completely eliminates the heap allocation, making environment checks more efficient during CLI runs and socket event hooks.

🔬 Measurement:
Run the workspace tests with cargo test --workspace --exclude forktty-ui-gtk --exclude libghostty-vt-sys && cargo test -p forktty-ui-gtk --no-default-features to ensure no functionality is broken.


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Summary

  • Preserves "1", "true", and "yes" environment values with case-insensitive matching.
  • Removes temporary String allocations from is_truthy_env.
  • Improves performance for CLI runs and socket event hooks.
  • Changes only Rust socket hook logic. No GTK or VTE behavior changes.
  • No public API changes.
  • Existing socket CLI tests are present, but no new tests are reported.
  • No security or privacy behavior changes.

Co-authored-by: Lucenx9 <185146821+Lucenx9@users.noreply.github.com>
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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

is_truthy_env now checks "true" and "yes" case-insensitively without allocating a lowercase String. The "1" value remains truthy.

Changes

Environment truthiness handling

Layer / File(s) Summary
Borrowed truthy comparisons
crates/forktty-ui-gtk/src/socket_cli/hooks/event.rs
is_truthy_env uses borrowed ASCII-insensitive comparisons for "true" and "yes", while retaining "1".

Estimated code review effort: 1 (Trivial) | ~5 minutes

Possibly related PRs

  • Lucenx9/forktty#372: Both changes update is_truthy_env in event.rs to avoid allocated lowercasing.
  • Lucenx9/forktty#380: This PR implements the same allocation optimization for is_truthy_env.

Suggested labels: frontend, rust, gtk

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Description Check ✅ Passed Check skipped - CodeRabbit’s high-level summary is enabled.
Title check ✅ Passed The title clearly describes the performance optimization to truthy environment checks and is concise.
Linked Issues check ✅ Passed Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Out of Scope Changes check ✅ Passed Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Privacy Boundary ✅ Passed The commit changes only local environment truthiness and hook debug output; it adds no telemetry, remote network call, or persistence outside existing local socket/config paths.
Terminal Command Safety ✅ Passed HEAD changes only is_truthy_env for the fixed FORKTTY_HOOK_DEBUG key; no PTY, path, process, shell, or notification execution code changed, and hook_debug sanitizes output.
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