Re: window.setTimeout

liorean <[email protected]> Wed, 11 Jul 2007 11:36:58 +0200
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On 10/07/07, Lon Boonen <[email protected]> wrote:
>    the internal clock of js is 60Hz. I think.
>    so the minimum mean interval is something like 16/2 = 8ms.
>    so your code takes at least 10.000 x 0.008 = 80s.

Wrong. There is no internal clock in js. The clock functionality,
including time frame size, is entirely based on the OS time frames and
the browser vendor. I wrote a blog entry on this a while ago,
including some timer resolution data if you're interested:
<uri:http://web-graphics.com/2007/03/06/timer-resolutions-and-browsers/>

On 11/07/07, Manni Schneiderbauer <[email protected]> wrote:
> Gecko internally allows a minimum delay value of 15 ms, even if you give
>  it a 0, to avoid settimeouts eating up the whole CPU time. Probably the
>  other browsers have such a minimum delay too.

Most browsers normalise the timer to at least 10ms if you give it a
smaller value than that. If you're on a multicore Windows NT system or
a Win9x/ME system the timer resolution of will be higher than 10ms
though, so in effect it will end up more than 10ms.
-- 
David "liorean" Andersson

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            <p>On 10/07/07, Lon Boonen &lt;<a href="mailto:lon%40q42.nl">[email protected]</a>&gt; wrote:<br>
&gt;    the internal clock of js is 60Hz. I think.<br>
&gt;    so the minimum mean interval is something like 16/2 = 8ms.<br>
&gt;    so your code takes at least 10.000 x 0.008 = 80s.<br>
<br>
Wrong. There is no internal clock in js. The clock functionality,<br>
including time frame size, is entirely based on the OS time frames and<br>
the browser vendor. I wrote a blog entry on this a while ago,<br>
including some timer resolution data if you're interested:<br>
&lt;uri:<a href="http://web-graphics.com/2007/03/06/timer-resolutions-and-browsers/">http://web-graphics<wbr>.com/2007/<wbr>03/06/timer-<wbr>resolutions-<wbr>and-browsers/</a>&gt;<br>
<br>
On 11/07/07, Manni Schneiderbauer &lt;<a href="mailto:manni%40manni.org">manni@manni.<wbr>org</a>&gt; wrote:<br>
&gt; Gecko internally allows a minimum delay value of 15 ms, even if you give<br>
&gt;  it a 0, to avoid settimeouts eating up the whole CPU time. Probably the<br>
&gt;  other browsers have such a minimum delay too.<br>
<br>
Most browsers normalise the timer to at least 10ms if you give it a<br>
smaller value than that. If you're on a multicore Windows NT system or<br>
a Win9x/ME system the timer resolution of will be higher than 10ms<br>
though, so in effect it will end up more than 10ms.<br>
-- <br>
David &quot;liorean&quot; Andersson<br>
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