On May 13, 02014, at 2:42, krishnan venkat <[email protected]> wrote:

> I am currently looping through large arrays in a child thread, I know that 
> the thread blocks until the loop ends but is it a good idea to use 
> process.setImmediate or nextTick instead of the default for loop.
> There is no async code in the for loop and I am worried that process.nextTick 
> might starve the event thread.
> Is this a good use case for using the latter 2 options?

Just how big are you talking? ns? us? ms duration?

setImmediate is probably what you want if you want to yield.

Aria

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