Reduce CPU Usage when Executing JS in Browser

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I’m trying to do the Sudoku Solver project, and as expected, the recursive backtracking algorithm is very computationally intensive. When executing this, it uses a large amount of CPU, and seems to crash or freeze up before the solution can be reached:

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Is there any way to execute JavaScript in a slower, but less intensive way within the browser?

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Whoops! The problem was actually caused by console logging a nested array in each iteration of the algorithm. After I stopped doing this, it ran fairly quickly and didn’t slow down.

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