Are you telling me a readonly property is wrecking my performance?

Software Development, Performance Engineering(shub.club)view on HackerNews
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Author: forthwall

Date: 7/9/2026

Article Summary:
A developer discovers that a seemingly performant code for setting the scroll height of an element is actually causing performance issues due to the dynamic nature of the scrollHeight property.