Heatmap scalability

The heatmap plugin is not very scalable at the moment. For millions few data points, the map is "laggy" when moving the maps around (at a reasonable zoom level, when most of the data points are hidden).

From what I've investigated, it comes from the fact the, when the _redraw function is called, the code iterates over all data points to check if it is or not in the bounds of the map being shown.
It seems very inefficient since there exists data structure such as R-Tree that can efficiently retrieve the data points inside a box.

Now it seems that the Leaftlet.heat plugin is not maintained anymore (as noted in #1282 ). As far as I can tell, there is only the .min.js file on this repository, what are the plans for this plugin?
Host it completely on this organization so it can be modified and maintained?

For the problem of the performances, I wrote a quick POC using rbush and it improves the performance when we zoom on a specific area (and fewer points are actually shown on the map). I can contribute to this issue if necessary.

Comienza localizando el JavaScript minificado del plugin de heatmap y su ruta _redraw; después, revisa la prueba de concepto de rbush reportada y la preocupación por el mantenimiento de Leaflet.heat. Se considerará terminado cuando se haya acordado el alcance del mantenimiento del plugin y existan pruebas de que el heatmap tiene un mejor rendimiento al renderizar millones de puntos.