diff --git a/.jules/bolt.md b/.jules/bolt.md
index b2c1128..6afe130 100644
--- a/.jules/bolt.md
+++ b/.jules/bolt.md
@@ -28,3 +28,7 @@
 ## 2025-10-24 - Bulk Disk I/O Parallelization and Thread Pool Starvation
 **Learning:** Both `withTaskGroup` and `Task.detached` schedule their work on Swift's cooperative thread pool, which has only as many threads as the CPU has cores. Running synchronous blocking I/O (like `FileManager.removeItem`) directly inside such tasks ties up cooperative threads — when every thread is parked in a syscall there is nothing left to advance other Swift Concurrency work, which manifests as starvation and (with self-referential `await` chains) outright deadlock. `Task.detached` does not help here: "detached" means unstructured/independent, not "off the cooperative pool."
 **Action:** To parallelize bulk blocking I/O, combine a sliding-window `withThrowingTaskGroup` (e.g., `maxConcurrency` of 8) with a per-item handoff to a GCD queue: wrap the blocking call in `withCheckedThrowingContinuation` and dispatch it via `DispatchQueue.global(qos: .userInitiated).async { ... continuation.resume(...) }`. The cooperative-pool task only `await`s the continuation, so it never holds a thread while the syscall runs.
+
+## 2024-05-30 - Eager Arrays from isEmpty and count checks
+**Learning:** In Swift, calling `.filter(condition).count` or `!array.filter(condition).isEmpty` creates intermediate arrays in memory simply to perform an aggregation or boolean check. This contributes to memory churn and GC overhead in SwiftUI rendering loops.
+**Action:** Chain `.lazy.filter(condition).count` to prevent the intermediate array allocation, and replace `!array.filter(condition).isEmpty` checks with the O(1) short-circuit evaluation `array.contains(where: condition)`.
diff --git a/Sources/Cacheout/ViewModels/CacheoutViewModel.swift b/Sources/Cacheout/ViewModels/CacheoutViewModel.swift
index 27de41a..7869601 100644
--- a/Sources/Cacheout/ViewModels/CacheoutViewModel.swift
+++ b/Sources/Cacheout/ViewModels/CacheoutViewModel.swift
@@ -106,7 +106,8 @@ class CacheoutViewModel: ObservableObject {
     }
 
     var selectedSize: Int64 {
-        selectedResults.reduce(0) { $0 + $1.sizeBytes }
+        // ⚡ Bolt: Use .lazy.filter directly to avoid allocating the selectedResults array again
+        scanResults.lazy.filter(\.isSelected).reduce(0) { $0 + $1.sizeBytes }
     }
 
     var formattedSelectedSize: String {
@@ -118,7 +119,8 @@ class CacheoutViewModel: ObservableObject {
     }
 
     var hasResults: Bool { !scanResults.isEmpty || !nodeModulesItems.isEmpty }
-    var hasSelection: Bool { !selectedResults.isEmpty || selectedNodeModulesSize > 0 }
+    // ⚡ Bolt: Use .contains(where:) to allow O(1) short-circuit evaluation instead of full O(N) array allocation via selectedResults.isEmpty
+    var hasSelection: Bool { scanResults.contains(where: \.isSelected) || selectedNodeModulesSize > 0 }
 
     // MARK: - Node Modules computed properties
 
diff --git a/Sources/Cacheout/Views/CleanConfirmation.swift b/Sources/Cacheout/Views/CleanConfirmation.swift
index 58f679b..700ddd2 100644
--- a/Sources/Cacheout/Views/CleanConfirmation.swift
+++ b/Sources/Cacheout/Views/CleanConfirmation.swift
@@ -36,7 +36,8 @@ struct CleanConfirmationSheet: View {
             Text("Clean Selected Caches?")
                 .font(.title2.bold())
 
-            Text("This will remove \(viewModel.formattedTotalSelectedSize) from \(viewModel.selectedResults.count + viewModel.nodeModulesItems.filter(\.isSelected).count) items.")
+            // ⚡ Bolt: Avoid intermediate array allocation by using .lazy before .filter and removing call to selectedResults which allocates
+            Text("This will remove \(viewModel.formattedTotalSelectedSize) from \(viewModel.scanResults.lazy.filter(\.isSelected).count + viewModel.nodeModulesItems.lazy.filter(\.isSelected).count) items.")
                 .font(.body)
                 .foregroundStyle(.secondary)
                 .multilineTextAlignment(.center)
diff --git a/Sources/Cacheout/Views/MenuBarView.swift b/Sources/Cacheout/Views/MenuBarView.swift
index 9084b59..42e3ca2 100644
--- a/Sources/Cacheout/Views/MenuBarView.swift
+++ b/Sources/Cacheout/Views/MenuBarView.swift
@@ -154,7 +154,8 @@ struct MenuBarView: View {
             Spacer()
             statPill(
                 label: "Categories",
-                value: "\(viewModel.scanResults.filter { !$0.isEmpty }.count)",
+                // ⚡ Bolt: Avoid intermediate array allocation by using .lazy before .filter
+                value: "\(viewModel.scanResults.lazy.filter { !$0.isEmpty }.count)",
                 color: .blue
             )
         }