Fast groq-hosted LLMs vs browser jank (via) Groq is now serving LLMs such as Llama 3 so quickly that JavaScript which attempts to render Markdown strings on every new token can cause performance issues in browsers.
Taras Glek's solution was to move the rendering to a requestAnimationFrame()
callback, effectively buffering the rendering to the fastest rate the browser can support.
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