On a recent trip through a CPU profile taken while Signal Desktop
churned through a large backlog of messages, it was clear that
console.log was a major source of time spent, primarily the sort
operation required after every new entry is added to the Backbone
collection. So, three different techniques to combat this:
1) Reduce the maximum number of entries in the collection from 5k to 2k
2) No more logging of add/update/remove queue in MessageReceiver
3) No more log entries in Message.handleDataMessage main codepath
FREEBIE
The user-agent string includes the information needed (OS + Chrome version) and the console.get() function seems just right. The debugLog itself is not manipulated.