Re: Task Queues as a primitive

Something like this: `setImmediate` is an API that puts a task in an early
queue that will run once the current program has run to completion. It runs
before queues for other such APIs, like Object.observe, Mutation Observers,
etc.

Yehuda Katz
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On Tue, Jul 2, 2013 at 9:04 AM, Marcos Caceres <w3c@marcosc.com> wrote:

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> On Tuesday, 2 July 2013 at 02:45, Yehuda Katz wrote:
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> > For what it's worth, TC39 is planning on taking up standardization of
> event loop concurrency in ES7. We tentatively started to discuss it at the
> last meeting, and it would be a good place for TC39/W3C coordination.
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> What do you see as the role of setImmediate() in that? Has there been some
> kind of API proposal for the event loop stuff. Any pointers would be
> greatly appreciated.
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> With regards to TC39/W3C coordination, what could this group do to help?
> or should we just keep a holding pattern. I guess having you be part of
> both orgs is already super helpful.
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