Make use of web-workers

[Karinon]

Since we have a play button now, it gets quite obvious that loading new data is pausing the main thread due to heavy calculations. Just enable Rotate and the Play button to experience it yourself. I briefly checked a gaussian reduced dataset (with the data being local on my machine) which took 5 seconds to load and render. Gridlook used 4 of these 5 seconds for some calculations which blocked the main thread.

I moved all the calculations into web workers via vibe-coding a, which made the rotation during play much smoother. Unfortunately, the changes where quite big and it didn't feel right to introduce them like this. But I am planning to look into this later a bit more.

[Huaian666]

Moving heavy computation to web workers is a game-changer for grid-based UIs. Offloading the main thread so the interface stays responsive while crunching data in the background - that's the difference between a sluggish demo and a production-ready tool. Great performance optimization move.

By the way, if anyone's into HTML - there's an iOS app called Like Code that lets you upload and run HTML directly on your phone. If you use AI to write some HTML and it runs well, you can optionally save it to your collection, even offline. If it's a game, you can even tweak the code to make yourself invincible haha

It's on the App Store, feel free to check it out!