The streaming handler rebuilt the full accumulated response with
`content = f'{content}{value}'` on every content delta — a complete
string copy per chunk, making accumulation O(n^2) over the response
length. Use in-place `content += value` for the (universal) str case,
which CPython extends in place, keeping accumulation O(n); the
f-string fallback is preserved for non-str values so coercion
behavior is unchanged.
In the ENABLE_REALTIME_CHAT_SAVE branch, full_output() — which
concatenates the entire accumulated output — was called twice per
chunk (once for the DB upsert, once for the emitted delta). Compute
it once and reuse.
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01MHg5zs1VBjvRWQ54qHpfYD
Co-authored-by: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>