These changes were left over from the previous attempt to handle control adapters in control layers with the same logic. Control Layers are now handled totally separately, so these changes may be reverted.
- Add and use more performant `deepClone` method for deep copying throughout the UI.
Benchmarks indicate the Really Fast Deep Clone library (`rfdc`) is the best all-around way to deep-clone large objects.
This is particularly relevant in canvas. When drawing or otherwise manipulating canvas objects, we need to do a lot of deep cloning of the canvas layer state objects.
Previously, we were using lodash's `cloneDeep`.
I did some fairly realistic benchmarks with a handful of deep-cloning algorithms/libraries (including the native `structuredClone`). I used a snapshot of the canvas state as the data to be copied:
On Chromium, `rfdc` is by far the fastest, over an order of magnitude faster than `cloneDeep`.
On FF, `fastest-json-copy` and `recursiveDeepCopy` are even faster, but are rather limited in data types. `rfdc`, while only half as fast as the former 2, is still nearly an order of magnitude faster than `cloneDeep`.
On Safari, `structuredClone` is the fastest, about 2x as fast as `cloneDeep`. `rfdc` is only 30% faster than `cloneDeep`.
`rfdc`'s peak memory usage is about 10% more than `cloneDeep` on Chrome. I couldn't get memory measurements from FF and Safari, but let's just assume the memory usage is similar relative to the other algos.
Overall, `rfdc` is the best choice for a single algo for all browsers. It's definitely the best for Chromium, by far the most popular desktop browser and thus our primary target.
A future enhancement might be to detect the browser and use that to determine which algorithm to use.
