[Charts] Performance: Explore ability to render Canvas

[davidicus]

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What package is this for?

• [X] React
• [ ] Angular

Summary

There are questions about the charts ability to handle and performantly render large data sets. An exploration is needed to test the performance gains, if any, to be had if we were able to render our charts in a canvas tag over the current svg. This would be a contribution to the carbon charts library directly. Possibly to the core library itself and then exposing a prop for the react version of the library.

Additionally, it makes sense to covert the zoombar graph into a canvas element as well if we find a significant performance gain with our charts.

We may want to do some performance testing on current chart and then again using the canvas version.