On Fri, Nov 8, 2013 at 5:29 PM, Ilya Shaisultanov <
ilya.shaisulta...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Ok, I think I'm thinking about process.nextTick as it was in node <0.10,
> where, if I'm not mistaken
>
> function f() {
> process.nextTick(f)
> }
>
> f()
>
> would loop infinitely, whereas an immediate recursive call throws
> RangeError.
>
> I tried running that in v0.10 and got RangeError. However,
>
> function f() {
> setImmediate(f)
> }
>
> f()
>
> puts the function in "background" and makes node process consume 100% CPU.
> What happens there?
>
I believe this is a bug that's specific to 0.10.x and was fixed in 0.11.x
and up. (Sorry, I don't have free cycles to look up the relevant github
issues at the moment)
Rick
> On Friday, November 8, 2013 5:20:21 PM UTC-5, Rick Waldron wrote:
>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Nov 8, 2013 at 3:57 PM, Ilya Shaisultanov
>> <ilya.sha...@gmail.com>wrote:
>>
>>> Pardon for resurrecting such old thread but I have a question about
>>> process.nextTick: why/how does it eliminate the current stack? What happens
>>> behind the scenes?
>>>
>>
>> It doesn't eliminate the current stack. The callback is "scheduled" and
>> subsequently executed in the next execution turn.
>>
>> Rick
>>
>>
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