https://github.com/joyent/node/issues/5798

On Fri, Nov 8, 2013 at 5:38 PM, Ilya Shaisultanov <
[email protected]> wrote:

> 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:
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Nov 8, 2013 at 5:29 PM, Ilya Shaisultanov 
>> <[email protected]>wrote:
>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>>> 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?
>>>
>>
>>
>> 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
>>
>>
>>> On Friday, November 8, 2013 5:20:21 PM UTC-5, Rick Waldron wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Fri, Nov 8, 2013 at 3:57 PM, Ilya Shaisultanov <
>>>> [email protected]> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> 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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