Typing Commit Message in Source Control sidebar causes CPU to spike

Where does the bug appear (feature/product)?

Cursor IDE

Describe the Bug

Typing Commit Message in Source Control sidebar causes CPU to spike. Especially if typing fast.

Steps to Reproduce

Type fast into the commit message field.

Expected Behavior

A text field’s on-input handler shouldn’t be noticeable on the CPU at all.

Operating System

Linux

Version Information

Version: 3.2.11
Commit: e9ee1339915a927dfb2df4a836dd9c8337e17cc0
Date: 2026-04-24T14:36:47.933Z
Layout: editor
Browser: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Cursor/3.2.11 Chrome/142.0.7444.265 Electron/39.8.1 Safari/537.36

Does this stop you from using Cursor

Sometimes - I can sometimes use Cursor

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