Trying to locate distant structures is very resource intensive and may cause crashes

When using the /locate command to locate a faraway structure the fps will drop significantly and after a few seconds the game freezes completely. The bug seems to be affected by the distance to the structure, up to 1000 blocks away and the game runs fine, go beyond that and the frames will start to drop more and more. If the command says there are no structures nearby the game will crash without fail.