Registering IPC handlers costs 0.4 ms; evaluating the modules behind them (axios, drizzle-orm, better-sqlite3, electron-updater, fix-path) before the window could load was the real cost. main.ts now keeps only the pre-paint wiring and loads the rest as the deferred-events.js chunk inside the main window's did-start-loading listener, where the import and its registrations complete before any renderer invoke can arrive.
Interleaved A/B on the performance build: app.whenReady 323 -> 265 ms, did-finish-load 499 -> 447 ms; J1 journey spawnToDidFinishLoad ~405 -> ~365 ms with identical counters. Packaging ships the chunk explicitly, verify:package-layout requires it, and the benchmark build identity hashes it.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
main.js is now a small entry that enables Node's on-disk V8 compile cache under userData/v8-compile-cache and then requires the application bundle main.app.js. Warm launches reach app.whenReady about 13 ms sooner at the median; IPTVNATOR_DISABLE_COMPILE_CACHE=1 turns it off and IPTVNATOR_COMPILE_CACHE_DIR relocates it.
Packaging now ships main.app.js explicitly and verify:package-layout requires the main-process entry files in app.asar, because nx-electron copies the backend through an allowlist. The Xtream benchmark build identity hashes both the launcher and the bundle.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* test(electron): reap Windows process trees and retain smoke diagnostics
* test(electron): require confirmed process exit before relaunch
* test(electron): retain process handle after application exit
* test(electron): bind captured processes to application instances
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