DevSmashing Magazineabout 3 hours ago
When Blocking the Main Thread Makes Sense
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Victor Ayomipo built a Chrome screenshot extension called Fastary and found that moving image data to an Offscreen Document caused a 2-3 second lag. The Structured Clone Algorithm's serialization overhead made background processing slower than blocking the main thread directly. Transferable objects were not an option for the use case.
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