Comments on: How JavaScript Timers Work

By: ibolmo

ibolmo — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 16:04:50 +0000

The article could have been better if it had talked about the internals other than a black box model investigation (although I understand that each browser is different — one internal is better than no internal).

Wouldn’t hurt to have a comparison to ECMAScript4 timers as well.

@Brendan Eich, any chance I can forward you some notes on Linux Kernel Scheduler and Timers? I know it’s too late for ES4, but the timers *need* a lot of work.

I suppose I can always write up a JS equivalent to the Linux kernel scheduler and timer for a prototype.

By: crock

crock — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 17:48:27 +0000

JavaScript does not have timers. What John is describing is the DOM’s timers.

By: Mark Holton

Mark Holton — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 17:45:35 +0000

…lot of investigations and work going on lately with regard to timers… John has had a few posts and likewise the Gears 0.2 release had some timer pieces…