perf(shorthandCss): merge each distinct style value only once

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shorthandCss ran a full postcss + postcss-merge-longhand pass for every single style attribute. Utility-generated emails repeat the same inline styles a lot, so most of those runs were redoing the same work.

It now caches the merged result per distinct style value, for the duration of one call (no module-level state, so nothing builds up in long-running processes).

Numbers

shorthandCss alone:

Email	style attributes (distinct)	Before	After
Typical order email (12KB)	107 (33)	3.6ms	1.3ms
Long email (48KB)	627 (33)	18.3ms	1.2ms

Full warm render with the renderer reused: ~41ms → ~36ms for the typical email, ~94ms → ~76ms for the long one.

Output is byte-identical on both emails, and there's a new test for repeated identical style values across elements and MSO conditional comments.

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• Bug Fixes
  • Elements with identical inline styles now receive consistent CSS shorthand processing, including elements inside MSO conditional comments.
  • Unchanged declaration text is handled consistently, while styles that cannot be parsed remain unchanged.
  • Repeated style values are processed consistently within a conversion, without carrying cached results over to later conversions.

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The transformer caches merged inline-style results for each call. Tests check padding conversion on three elements, including one inside an MSO conditional comment, and verify PostCSS plugin creation counts for repeated and distinct style values and for separate calls.

Changes

CSS shorthand merging

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Cache merged inline styles and verify output src/transformers/shorthandCss.ts, src/tests/transformers/shorthandCss.test.ts	shorthandCssDom caches results by original style value during each call. It preserves and caches the original value when parsing fails or yields no declaration text. Tests check padding conversion across three elements and verify plugin creation counts for repeated values, distinct values, and separate calls.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes

Change: Refactor

Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to c6a61

The change reuses merged styles within each transformation call while keeping calls independent; no merge-blocking behavior is evident.

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The change affects 1 system.

Changed systems: src

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Systems and components

• observed — src (service) was modified; 2 changed files map to changed impact.

Before / after behavior

• observed — Modified behavior in src/transformers/shorthandCss.ts: mergeStyleValue adds a per-call cache keyed by the original style string. Cache hits return immediately; otherwise it starts with the original value, replaces it with extracted trimmed CSS when available, and caches the result. Parsing failures or missing extracted CSS preserve and cache the original value. Previously, identical merged text fell through to returning the original input.
• observed — Modified behavior in src/tests/transformers/shorthandCss.test.ts: The Vitest import now includes vi. A hoisted counter and mock wrapper track calls to the postcss-merge-longhand plugin creator while delegating to the original plugin.
• observed — Modified behavior in src/tests/transformers/shorthandCss.test.ts: Adds a test expecting repeated identical padding values on two elements and an MSO conditional-comment element to produce three shorthand declarations, with no remaining padding-top.
• observed — Modified behavior in src/tests/transformers/shorthandCss.test.ts: Adds a test expecting the plugin creator to run twice for an input containing three elements but only two distinct style values.

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src/tests/transformers/shorthandCss.test.ts (1)

46-54: 🚀 Performance & Scalability | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Add a separate-call cache-isolation assertion.

The current test covers repeated styles within one shorthandCss call only. A module-level cache would pass it while retaining entries across long-lived transformations. Add a second call with the same style and assert two PostCSS runs.

Suggested fix

       shorthandCss(html)
       expect(mergeLonghandCalls.count).toBe(2)
     })
+
+    it('does not reuse the cache across shorthandCss calls', () => {
+      const style = 'padding-top: 11px; padding-right: 22px; padding-bottom: 11px; padding-left: 22px'
+      const html = `<p style="${style}">A</p>`
+
+      mergeLonghandCalls.count = 0
+      shorthandCss(html)
+      shorthandCss(html)
+      expect(mergeLonghandCalls.count).toBe(2)
+    })
   })

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Review comment at @src/tests/transformers/shorthandCss.test.ts around lines 46 -
54:
Add an assertion in the shorthandCss tests that cache entries are not reused
across separate calls: invoke shorthandCss twice with the same style value and
verify mergeLonghandCalls records two PostCSS runs. Keep the existing
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Review comments at @src/tests/transformers/shorthandCss.test.ts:
- Around line 46-54: Add an assertion in the shorthandCss tests that cache
entries are not reused across separate calls: invoke shorthandCss twice with the
same style value and verify mergeLonghandCalls records two PostCSS runs. Keep
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