Pops schrieb:
So who knows what the developer of this code was thinking when he/she
set this value to 1. Maybe you do need it for animation. Maybe he had
yahoo finance running at the time and it mistakely thought that 1ms is
the "Fastest Possible" when it fact it is not. Zero ms is the
fastest. The problem is that 0ms is so fast, it will create a massive
CPU hogging. So you don't want 0ms.
Here is one resource about minimum timeout values:
http://dev.opera.com/articles/view/efficient-javascript/?page=2#timeouts
(last paragraph).
Not exactly accurate, but at least a better rule of thumb then just
guessing in the wild.
-- Jörn
