If it has been more than 20 milliseconds i expect both of them to be able to be fired, so sure. In some ways this is similar how i don't rely on the order of event listeners being fired.
On Sun, Mar 20, 2011 at 10:15 AM, Jorge <jo...@jorgechamorro.com> wrote: > Hi Bradley, > > So, do you *really* say that given this: > > setTimeout(f, 10); > setTimeout(g, 20); > > you'd be fine with g() being called before f() ? Really ? > > Cheers, > -- > Jorge. > > On 20/03/2011, at 15:40, Bradley Meck wrote: > >> I would just like to state, to me it makes no sense to assume the >> order of a timer is guaranteed, if something must happen after >> another, you should provides semaphore checks anyway (not real ones, >> just a counter to see if the number of tasks done is correct or >> flags). This would also help to prevent some odd situations where a >> timer generator gets fired twice as well as not limiting timeout for >> the more common situation where the order of timers truly does not >> matter by forcing a clamping and ordering algorithm. >> >> Cheers, >> Bradley >> >> On Sun, Mar 20, 2011 at 9:30 AM, Jorge <jo...@jorgechamorro.com> wrote: >>> On 20/03/2011, at 14:00, Wes Garland wrote: >>> >>> On Sun, Mar 20, 2011 at 6:03 AM, Jorge <jo...@jorgechamorro.com> wrote: >>>> >>>> will eventually fire g() before f() is nodejs: >>>> <https://github.com/joyent/node/pull/604> >>>> I've never seen that in any browser. >>> >>> This sounds like a bug in Node's clamping algorithm. >>> >>> It's not, there's an -unwanted- 1ms clamp, but that's not the problem. It's >>> a limitation of the optimizations in place in the implementation of >>> setTimeout()/setInterval(). To guarantee the correct order would require a >>> less performant implementation. >>> -- >>> Jorge. >>> _______________________________________________ >>> es-discuss mailing list >>> es-discuss@mozilla.org >>> https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss >>> >>> > > _______________________________________________ es-discuss mailing list es-discuss@mozilla.org https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss
