Spinner performance. Use translate instead of positioning. #8842
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This changes the pink spinner bar at the top from using background positioning of the element to use CSS transforms, thus offloading the spinner animation to the GPU and removing the need to render & paint. There's no functionality change here, this is just a performance tweak.
While the pies below make the gain seem minimal, this change takes my CPU from a steady 30% while the spinner is active, down to 17%. Its a pretty big win when you have a breakpoint set and the spinner is running.
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