Boost support

[namirsab]

Hey there, thanks a lot!

Is there any way to incorporate support for the Boost?

[paulo-raca]

What is it?

[namirsab]

the boost module of Highcharts

https://www.highcharts.com/docs/advanced-chart-features/boost-module

The problem is right now if you have a heatmap with many points, the browsers suffer because it needs to handle a lot of paths. The boost module renders inside a canvas to speed it up

[paulo-raca]

That sounds like a great idea!
I must admit I'd love to have better performance too -- In fact, I usually lower the chart resolution during 3D drag-and-drop to increase responsiveness, but this trick cannot be applied to all datasets.

I'll take a look into it, I got other stuff going on right now and I cannot promise anything 🤷‍♂️

Is your heatmeap 2D or 3D? I'm guessing most of the work is already done for 2D, but maybe not for 3D?

[namirsab]

Our heat map is 2D. The problem is that if you have many points, and due to triangulations and stuff, it's an expensive thing to render for the browser. Each point has its event listeners, etc.

That's why we had to move to another solution