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by jonenst 3463 days ago
It's a nice visualization, but cpu usage shoots through the roof ! Deleting the animated arrows between the countries helps a bit, but then it still uses around 50% cpu (and that's on a fast desktop computer. Can't imagine my laptop trying to display this page). Using Ubuntu + firefox (it's a little better with chromium).

Is it a problem with this page ? With my setup ? Or is it just impossible to do something of this quality on the web without monster cpus ?

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Hi there,

I'm the author of the map. For sure it can be optimised. If you can help, feel free to do so on github - or reach out so we can chat. Thanks :)

Same here. It was already sluggish and using a lot of CPU power but as soon as I clicked on the check-boxes the whole thing ground to a halt... took 30 seconds to close the tab.

I really like the idea though.

It runs fine for me on a Celeron-based Chromebook, albeit with 100% usage of one core.
The fan is going crazy on my laptop with an older i5, but it works.