[milroc]

hey Zjonsson, I think this is awesome, have you considered having a webworker run in the background to send the data to the browser and then switch once it has finished? The time to interactivity (and visibility) of crossfilter is a problem, and I think you did a great job solving that problem, I just don't find the interactivity to be as great as I was expecting (then again I'm on a slow connection currently).

[zjonsson]

A great idea, however the web workers would have to be semi-persistent as the initial build of the crossfilter object takes some time (i.e. I wouldn't spawn a new worker on a new request). Here I simply increased the heroku nodes to respond smoothly to Hackernews traffic. I'm pretty happy with the results.