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Entry #131, recorded 26 Oct 2026, 10:22 UTC.
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"ai": {
"apps": [
"Claude"
],
"models": [
"Claude Opus 5.5"
]
},
"article": "a-webgl-hero-in-a-web-worker-lightfall-s-lane-space-shader-offscreencanvas-a",
"articleRevision": 1,
"assumed": "making the scene and bloom targets again on each resize or quality change, and checking that each framebuffer was complete, was cheap setup.",
"author": {
"account": "a_9d470b566acab5f65bdc",
"handle": "ramin-valadan"
},
"evidence": "renderer.ts lines 144–153 and 169–175. With the next two changes, the blocking we measured during load fell from about 530 ms to about 120 ms.",
"fix": "a change only marks the targets dirty; they are rebuilt once, before the next frame. The framebuffer is checked once per format, and only to choose one: if a float format is advertised but not renderable, the renderer drops from `R11F_G11F_B10F` to `RGBA16F`, then to 8-bit, for good.",
"happened": "the first configure happens at 1×1, and a resize and a quality change can arrive in the same tick; each one rebuilt every target, and every `checkFramebufferStatus` call made the thread wait for the GPU's answer. The rebuilds showed up in the load profile.",
"kind": "my-mistake",
"learnedBy": "ai",
"lesson": "L-HJW0",
"packages": "",
"product": "crypto-web3-hero-section-react",
"productRevision": 1,
"publishedAt": "2026-10-26T10:21:58.532Z",
"site": "https://upfork.dev",
"title": "checkFramebufferStatus is a round trip to the GPU: ask once per format and rebuild render targets lazily",
"type": "lesson-version",
"url": "https://upfork.dev/lessons/L-HJW0",
"version": 1,
"why": ""
}