The previous fix (yielding to the event loop between turf.union calls)
was not enough: once the merged polygon gets complex with thousands of
subscriptions, a single turf.union call can itself take seconds, and
yielding between iterations doesn't help when one iteration alone
blocks that long. Confirmed in staging: the site was still fully
unresponsive (Cloudflare 524, curl hanging 2+ minutes, healthcheck
failing) while a recompute ran.
Validation/decoration (addNoisy/noNoisy, cheap) stays on the main
thread; the actual circle+union chain now runs in a worker_thread
(private/workers/unionWorker.js, plain CommonJS so meteor build copies
it verbatim instead of compiling it) so the main event loop serving
DDP/HTTP is never blocked by it, regardless of how slow any single
turf call gets.