See https://html.spec.whatwg.org/#microtask-queue and https://html.spec.whatwg.org/#spin-the-event-loop It's just about whether your microtask tries to spin the event loop multiple times. If you were to spin the event loop when the current task is a compound microtask, then you'd end up moving all the subtasks after the first one that spins the event loop into a later full task, which is probably not what you want. Instead you wrap such subtasks in https://html.spec.whatwg.org/#execute-a-compound-microtask-subtask On Mon, Oct 3, 2016 at 2:49 AM Anne van Kesteren <annevk@annevk.nl> wrote: > Hey Adam, Rafael, and Ian, > > Do any of you remember the distinction between compound and solitary > microtasks? I haven't succeeded figuring it out from the > specification. https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=24810 > has some of the motivation as the first comment, but I can't really > think of a practical scenario where that would happen. > > Olli has likewise been trying to figure this out for a while and has > not succeeded. Any help would be greatly appreciated. > > Kind regards, > > > -- > https://annevankesteren.nl/ >
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