Improve bulk message deletion speed

ts/services/expiringMessagesDeletion.ts

@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 // Copyright 2016 Signal Messenger, LLC
 // SPDX-License-Identifier: AGPL-3.0-only
 
+import { batch } from 'react-redux';
 import { debounce } from 'lodash';
 
 import type { MessageModel } from '../models/messages';
@@ -31,7 +32,6 @@ class ExpiringMessagesDeletionService {
 
       const messageIds: Array<string> = [];
       const inMemoryMessages: Array<MessageModel> = [];
-      const messageCleanup: Array<Promise<void>> = [];
 
       messages.forEach(dbMessage => {
         const message = window.MessageController.register(
@@ -40,22 +40,20 @@ class ExpiringMessagesDeletionService {
         );
         messageIds.push(message.id);
         inMemoryMessages.push(message);
-        messageCleanup.push(message.cleanup());
       });
 
-      // We delete after the trigger to allow the conversation time to process
-      //   the expiration before the message is removed from the database.
       await window.Signal.Data.removeMessages(messageIds);
-      await Promise.all(messageCleanup);
 
-      inMemoryMessages.forEach(message => {
+      batch(() => {
-        window.SignalContext.log.info('Message expired', {
+        inMemoryMessages.forEach(message => {
-          sentAt: message.get('sent_at'),
+          window.SignalContext.log.info('Message expired', {
+            sentAt: message.get('sent_at'),
+          });
+
+          // We do this to update the UI, if this message is being displayed somewhere
+          message.trigger('expired');
+          window.reduxActions.conversations.messageExpired(message.id);
         });
-
-        // We do this to update the UI, if this message is being displayed somewhere
-        message.trigger('expired');
-        window.reduxActions.conversations.messageExpired(message.id);
       });
 
       if (messages.length > 0) {

ts/sql/Client.ts

@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
 
 import { ipcRenderer as ipc } from 'electron';
 import PQueue from 'p-queue';
+import { batch } from 'react-redux';
 
 import { has, get, groupBy, isTypedArray, last, map, omit } from 'lodash';
 
@@ -23,7 +24,11 @@ import * as Errors from '../types/errors';
 
 import type { StoredJob } from '../jobs/types';
 import { formatJobForInsert } from '../jobs/formatJobForInsert';
-import { cleanupMessage } from '../util/cleanup';
+import {
+  cleanupMessage,
+  cleanupMessageFromMemory,
+  deleteMessageData,
+} from '../util/cleanup';
 import { drop } from '../util/drop';
 import { ipcInvoke, doShutdown } from './channels';
 
@@ -590,11 +595,18 @@ async function removeMessage(id: string): Promise<void> {
 async function _cleanupMessages(
   messages: ReadonlyArray<MessageAttributesType>
 ): Promise<void> {
+  // First, remove messages from memory, so we can batch the updates in redux
+  batch(() => {
+    messages.forEach(message => cleanupMessageFromMemory(message));
+  });
+
+  // Then, handle any asynchronous actions (e.g. deleting data from disk)
   const queue = new PQueue({ concurrency: 3, timeout: MINUTE * 30 });
   drop(
     queue.addAll(
       messages.map(
-        (message: MessageAttributesType) => async () => cleanupMessage(message)
+        (message: MessageAttributesType) => async () =>
+          deleteMessageData(message)
       )
     )
   );

ts/util/cleanup.ts

@@ -10,6 +10,14 @@ import * as log from '../logging/log';
 export async function cleanupMessage(
   message: MessageAttributesType
 ): Promise<void> {
+  cleanupMessageFromMemory(message);
+  await deleteMessageData(message);
+}
+
+/** Removes a message from redux caches & backbone, but does NOT delete files on disk,
+ * story replies, edit histories, attachments, etc. Should ONLY be called in conjunction
+ * with deleteMessageData.  */
+export function cleanupMessageFromMemory(message: MessageAttributesType): void {
   const { id, conversationId } = message;
 
   window.reduxActions?.conversations.messageDeleted(id, conversationId);
@@ -18,8 +26,6 @@ export async function cleanupMessage(
   parentConversation?.debouncedUpdateLastMessage();
 
   window.MessageController.unregister(id);
-
-  await deleteMessageData(message);
 }
 
 async function cleanupStoryReplies(