From c916ef453490b718854989ca2a74ac476b61934a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "J. Ryan Stinnett" <jryans@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 6 Feb 2020 17:57:17 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Only emit in RoomViewStore when state actually changes

This adds a shallow state check to attempt to only emit a store update when
something actually changes.

Fixes https://github.com/vector-im/riot-web/issues/12256
---
 src/stores/RoomViewStore.js | 14 ++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+)

diff --git a/src/stores/RoomViewStore.js b/src/stores/RoomViewStore.js
index 9bcc2815e6..64dfd56b2f 100644
--- a/src/stores/RoomViewStore.js
+++ b/src/stores/RoomViewStore.js
@@ -66,6 +66,20 @@ class RoomViewStore extends Store {
     }
 
     _setState(newState) {
+        // If values haven't changed, there's nothing to do.
+        // This only tries a shallow comparison, so unchanged objects will slip
+        // through, but that's probably okay for now.
+        let stateChanged = false;
+        for (const key of Object.keys(newState)) {
+            if (this._state[key] !== newState[key]) {
+                stateChanged = true;
+                break;
+            }
+        }
+        if (!stateChanged) {
+            return;
+        }
+
         this._state = Object.assign(this._state, newState);
         this.__emitChange();
     }