perf(Scope): $apply isolation

[kseamon]

Allow a new child (s) to be initialized in such a way as to limit calls to $apply made by
s and its decedents to $rootScope, s, and s's descendants.

This would be very beneficial to use-cases like dialogs where user interaction (And likely code) is isolated to a certain subtree of the page scope.

Inspiration is taken from the isolated-scope service employed by DCM which uses monkey patching to achieve this aim. It has made $apply calls in these isolated contexts substantially faster.

[bfricka]

Just curious, do you mean that this would be a default behavior of Scope or would it by an argument passed to Scope.$new?

[kseamon]

It would be a non-default option, like isolate is today.

On Jan 21, 2014, at 3:35 AM, brian-frichette [email protected] wrote:

Just curious, do you mean that this would be a default behavior of Scope or would it by an argument passed to Scope.$new?

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[g00fy-]

@kseamon why not just use $digest ?

[kseamon]

$digest is great when you're trying to digest the scope of your own directive. In this case, I'm talking about an isolated region of the page (It might be created by a directive, but it contains its own arbitrary markup and a controller).

In order to accomplish this behavior with just $digest, you'd need custom implementations of ng-click, input, etc that know to digest a particular scope instead of calling $apply as they do now.

[pjfsilva]

+1 exactly because of dialog windows: my app can have multiple dialogs open at one time and they don't need to interact with anything else, so I could really improve the performance isolating them with maybe an explicit way of communication