What happened?

Loading Gaussian Splat 3D Tiles with SPZ compression causes severe main-thread stalls. When tiles are requested and decoded, the viewer becomes noticeably unresponsive: frames are dropped and tile loading blocks rendering for a visible amount of time.

The main bottleneck appears to be SPZ decoding and spherical harmonics packing. In particular, decoding SPZ payloads and packing SH data into half-float texture-ready buffers currently performs expensive CPU work on the main thread. Large tiles or tiles with higher SH degree make the stall much worse.

Reproduction steps

1. Open a CesiumJS app or Sandcastle example that loads a Gaussian Splat 3D Tiles tileset.
2. Use a tileset with large SPZ payloads and spherical harmonics attributes, especially SH degree 2 or 3.
3. Start navigating so new tiles stream in.
4. Observe that the viewer freezes or stutters while tiles are loading.
5. Capture a performance profile in browser DevTools.
6. Notice long main-thread tasks during SPZ decode and spherical harmonics packing.

Sandcastle example

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Environment

Browser:Chrome
CesiumJS Version:1.141
Operating System:Windows

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