How Figma made copy + paste faster

Figma's copy paste feature has gotten faster recently. For instance, on a component with over 1000 states, copy went from 700+ milliseconds to 50, about 15x faster. Paste went from 2 seconds to 400 milliseconds. Diane Hu (Software Engineer, Figma) explains how.

00:00 Intro
00:28 Published state group rehydration
01:00 Stripping observers off the copy path
01:16 Paste feels faster
01:35 Outro
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