diff --git a/NucleicRemote/NucleicRemote/Views/SessionDetailView.swift b/NucleicRemote/NucleicRemote/Views/SessionDetailView.swift
index 82482a8..2bbe148 100644
--- a/NucleicRemote/NucleicRemote/Views/SessionDetailView.swift
+++ b/NucleicRemote/NucleicRemote/Views/SessionDetailView.swift
@@ -509,6 +509,14 @@ struct TranscriptList: View {
     /// row churn.
     @State private var prewarmTask: Task<Void, Never>?
 
+    /// How many projected rows the pre-warm has already covered, so each later trigger snapshots
+    /// only the *new* rows instead of re-walking (and re-hashing) the whole transcript on every
+    /// row that lands — which would quietly re-introduce an O(N) main-thread pass per row. Held
+    /// in a box (not `@State` value) because updating it from `body`-adjacent code must not
+    /// invalidate the view.
+    private final class PrewarmProgress { var count = 0 }
+    @State private var prewarmProgress = PrewarmProgress()
+
     private var items: [TranscriptItem] {
         projectionCache.items(for: events, showRaw: showRaw, showLockEvents: showLockEvents)
     }
@@ -519,11 +527,16 @@ struct TranscriptList: View {
     /// away, jittering the load-in. Snapshot the message bodies here on the main actor (a cheap read
     /// of the memoized projection), then parse them on a background task so that first layout finds
     /// the caches already warm. Idempotent and self-cancelling; the parse results are the same
-    /// whichever thread fills the (thread-safe) caches.
+    /// whichever thread fills the (thread-safe) caches. Incremental: only rows beyond the last
+    /// covered count are snapshotted (coalescing can shuffle nearby indices, but a missed body just
+    /// parses on first layout as before — the warm is an optimization, never a correctness gate).
     private func prewarmMarkdown() {
-        let bodies: [String] = items.compactMap {
+        let current = items
+        if current.count < prewarmProgress.count { prewarmProgress.count = 0 }  // stream reset
+        let bodies: [String] = current[prewarmProgress.count...].compactMap {
             if case .message(_, let text) = $0.kind { return text } else { return nil }
         }
+        prewarmProgress.count = current.count
         guard !bodies.isEmpty else { return }
         prewarmTask?.cancel()
         prewarmTask = Task.detached(priority: .utility) {