Engine.update() with a large delta crashes browser tab

I inadvertently passed a big delta to Engine.update and ended up crashing my browser tab with 100% CPU usage.

This code reproduces it for me but I suppose the actual delta value might depend on the hardware.

const crash = () => {
  const { Engine, Bodies, World } = Matter
  const engine = Engine.create()
  const body = Bodies.circle(0, 0, 1)

  World.add(engine.world, body)
  Engine.update(engine, 1000000)
}

This Codepen crashes for me in Safari, Chrome seems OK but with high CPU usage: https://codepen.io/scriptie/pen/MWYXWyW?editors=0011

[LeotomasMC]

well you see, its trying to run a lot of time in a little bit of time, its like if your playing a game, and you try to run it at 1000x speed, it doesnt work very well trying to do 1000x more things at the same time.

edit: this probably looks sarcastic, but i wasnt trying to be

[liabru]

Yeah I’d say this is down to the library user to maintain a reasonable delta but I know what you mean. I think this is already implemented in the built in runner, but intentionally not directly in the engine which is considered lower level.

Not sure what is going on specifically to cause this but essentially the lack of accuracy caused by a high delta causes growing instability, so even if any errors were fixed it would definitely still be unusable!