On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 6:28 AM, foldi <foldifoldi.vi...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm trying to understand something about setInterval. When running the > following in FF3, the time it takes to execute the interval's function > does not take longer than the 30ms specified for the interval. > However, it takes longer than 30ms to for the interval to run again. > Where is the extra time going? Is there always some overhead to > running a setInterval? Thanks. > > Certain browsers have a minimal interval at which timers can be called. For example, firefox has 10ms intervals. So timers simply can't be called faster than ten times per second. I don't know for others (including fx4, maybe they changed it) but I'm sure somebody else has a table with these details somewhere :) - peter -- To view archived discussions from the original JSMentors Mailman list: http://www.mail-archive.com/jsmentors@jsmentors.com/ To search via a non-Google archive, visit here: http://www.mail-archive.com/jsmentors@googlegroups.com/ To unsubscribe from this group, send email to jsmentors+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com
