Default priority of idle event?

Does an idle event have a default priority?

I have a pair of events.  One's an idle event, with no 'prio' value in
its constructor.  Another is a timer event with a priority of '0'.  The
idle event retrieves a bunch of stuff from a queue, and executes the
first item.  If the queue cache is not empty it does

  $event->w->now();

to queue itself again rather than wait for the idle to expire.  The
problem I'm having is that the timer event never gets a chance to
execute unless the queue cache is empty, i.e., now() is skipped.

It acts like either the idle event has a higher priority than '0', or
that events inserted via now() always outrank pre-existing events.

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