[whatwg] localStorage + worker processes

On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 10:40 AM, Jeremy Orlow <jorlow at google.com> wrote:

> I really like the idea of some generic yield, though I wonder if there's
> some reason it hasn't been added earlier.  People have been using the
> setTimeout(..., 0) trick for a while to get around slow script warnings (and
> general unresponsiveness)...so surely something like this must have come up
> before?  If so, what were the drawbacks?
>

An obvious issue is that you can easily end up with arbitrarily deep nesting
and stack overflows.

Rob
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