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Excellent post by @rviscomi.dev about how to get loops off the main thread efficiently.

calendar.perfplanet.comBreaking Up with Long Tasks or: how I learned to group loops and wield the yieldEverything, On the Main Thread, All at Once Arrays are in every web developer's toolbox, and there are a dozen ways to iterate over them. Choose wrong, though, and all of that processing time will hap...

3/1/25, 10:17 pm0 reposts3 likes

Mat Simon

@matsimon.dev

3 Jan 2025

I worded that poorly. It’s not about getting them off the main thread (for which you’d need a web worker) but yielding to the main thread so long running task don’t block the main thread for too long.