On: The Monaco Code Editor

[amasad]

I think that's pretty much standard practice. I'm not sure about Atom but Ace leverage's workers for linting, intellesense and things like that.

[c-smile → amasad]

Educated guess: generator functions with chunked processing on setInterval callbacks would be less CPU consuming for such tasks.

[EGreg → c-smile]

Pretty sure setInterval still uses the same processor core, wasting the others