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"assumed": "`price.toLocaleString(\"en-US\", options)` was a cheap way to format a price.",
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"fix": "one `Intl.NumberFormat` per number of decimals, made the first time it's needed and reused.",
"happened": "each call with options builds a new formatter, and the ticker formats its 14 pairs on every update. Number formatting showed up in the load profile too.",
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"title": "toLocaleString with options builds a new Intl.NumberFormat on every call: make one per precision and reuse it",
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