No worries.

Is the bug that it doesn't throw RangeError or that the execution happens 
in background?

On Friday, November 8, 2013 5:31:45 PM UTC-5, Rick Waldron wrote:
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> On Fri, Nov 8, 2013 at 5:29 PM, Ilya Shaisultanov 
> <[email protected]<javascript:>
> > wrote:
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>> Ok, I think I'm thinking about process.nextTick as it was in node <0.10, 
>> where, if I'm not mistaken
>>
>> function f() {
>>   process.nextTick(f)
>> }
>>
>> f()
>>
>> would loop infinitely, whereas an immediate recursive call throws 
>> RangeError.
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>> I tried running that in v0.10 and got RangeError. However,
>>
>> function f() {
>>   setImmediate(f)
>> }
>>
>> f()
>>
>> puts the function in "background" and makes node process consume 100% 
>> CPU. What happens there?
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> I believe this is a bug that's specific to  0.10.x and was fixed in 0.11.x 
> and up. (Sorry, I don't have free cycles to look up the relevant github 
> issues at the moment)
>
> Rick
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>> On Friday, November 8, 2013 5:20:21 PM UTC-5, Rick Waldron wrote:
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>>> On Fri, Nov 8, 2013 at 3:57 PM, Ilya Shaisultanov <[email protected]
>>> > wrote:
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>>>> Pardon for resurrecting such old thread but I have a question about 
>>>> process.nextTick: why/how does it eliminate the current stack? What 
>>>> happens 
>>>> behind the scenes?
>>>>
>>>
>>> It doesn't eliminate the current stack. The callback is "scheduled" and 
>>> subsequently executed in the next execution turn.
>>>
>>> Rick
>>>
>>>
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