On May 13, 2014, at 2:42 AM, 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.
Don't you mean "I am worried that without process.nextTick..."? To answer your
question, I'd guess it depends on the typical execution time for the loop and
how dependent other parts of your logic flow are on what occurs within the loop.
--ravi
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