The only thing that I've used this for was a less glitchy timer than
setTimeout (
https://github.com/Marak/JSONloops/blob/master/lib/JSONloops/looper.js#L131-162).
 I'm sure there are better ways to get a precision timer, but we were deep
in the zone of music hack day.

-- Elijah

On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 1:21 PM, Paddy Byers <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> If a collection is of "indefinite size" then it should not be loaded
>> entirely in to memory in order to accomplish computation, it should be
>> streamed. In the case of streaming the collection you can iteratively
>> perform the computation without locking up the process indefinitely and
>> without taking on a large memory footprint of either the original
>> collection or even what has already been processed.
>>
>
> Yes, you stream application data in and out of your application. But I'm
> talking about application state, such as anything you have on a
> per-connection or per-token basis, for example. It's in memory because it's
> your application, not your application's data.
>
> Thanks - Paddy
>

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