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by joe_hoyle 2425 days ago
The "work" is the arbitrary JavaScript in the `render()` function. In Concurrent mode, a `render()` function that renders 1000 children can now be interrupted "between" renders of all those children.

It's akin to doing `Header( LoginLink( GetLoginName() ) )` versus

``` Header(); check_for_interrupt(); LoginLink(); check_for_interrupt(); ... ```

The interrupt between rendering components (pieces of work) can now cancel the whole render operation (because say, the parent component has now been updated / wants to be re-rendered), or can pause the render tree while something like a high-priority animation frame is rendered.