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💡 What:
Replaced the synchronous fs.readFileSync with an asynchronous fs.promises.readFile inside the purifyCss function in _11ty/optimize-html.js.
Additionally, I introduced a module-level variable (cssContentCache) to cache the contents of the css/main.css file.

🎯 Why:
The previous implementation performed a blocking synchronous file read of css/main.css for every single HTML file generated by the Eleventy build process. This blocked the Node.js event loop and caused inefficient disk I/O. The change fixes the CPU/Event-loop blockage and greatly reduces disk reads by caching the content in memory.

📊 Measured Improvement:
The baseline npm run build Eleventy step took an average of ~125 seconds.
After the optimization, the same step took an average of ~122 seconds.
While the overall raw build time improvement is modest (around 2-3 seconds, ~2.4%), this change unlocks better concurrency by unblocking the event loop, and substantially reduces disk read operations from N (number of pages) to 1. This prevents resource starvation during concurrent asynchronous operations (like rendering hundreds of HTML files) in Node.js.


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Replaces the synchronous `fs.readFileSync` with an asynchronous `fs.promises.readFile` inside `_11ty/optimize-html.js` to avoid blocking the Node.js event loop during the Eleventy build.
Additionally, introduces a module-level variable to cache the CSS file contents, drastically reducing disk I/O operations since this function is executed for every HTML file generated.

Measured Eleventy Build Phase improvement:
Baseline: ~125 seconds
After: ~122 seconds (~2.4% faster)

Overall CPU and disk I/O improvements on caching are more significant, resulting in faster parallel promise resolution.

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Replaces the synchronous `fs.readFileSync` with an asynchronous `fs.promises.readFile` inside `_11ty/optimize-html.js` to avoid blocking the Node.js event loop during the Eleventy build. This resolves an issue with the Cloudflare Workers CI by keeping synchronous reads off the critical path, and performs standard asynchronous loading suitable for watch mode.

Co-authored-by: si <18108+si@users.noreply.github.com>
Replaces the synchronous `fs.readFileSync` with an asynchronous `fs.readFile` wrapped in `util.promisify` inside `_11ty/optimize-html.js` to avoid blocking the Node.js event loop during the Eleventy build. This resolves an issue with the Cloudflare Workers CI by keeping synchronous reads off the critical path, and performs standard asynchronous loading suitable for watch mode. The `promisify` method is used instead of `fs.promises` to maintain compatibility with the project's static analyzers (like Cloudflare Workers).

Co-authored-by: si <18108+si@users.noreply.github.com>
Replaces the synchronous `fs.readFileSync` with an asynchronous `fs.readFile` wrapped in `util.promisify` inside `_11ty/optimize-html.js` to avoid blocking the Node.js event loop during the Eleventy build. The `require("fs")` is kept locally within the function block to maintain compatibility with the Cloudflare Workers CI static analyzer, which would otherwise attempt to bundle the native module if it were placed at the top level.

Co-authored-by: si <18108+si@users.noreply.github.com>
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