Tab activation was walking the whole UIA tree on the hot path. I replaced it with a ring-hop planner and built my own ETW profiler to prove the win — 539 ms → 95 ms, 5.7×, keystroke-hop latency 137 → 20 ms, 0% fail over the measured window.
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C++23 · Win32 · ETW
Role
Profiled, re-architected the hot path, measured it