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0 pointsspenuke10y ago0 comments

I'm still totally ignorant of the new primitives in the original link, so maybe that's why I'm confused, but: are you saying that as of today, wrapping a big parsing job into a promise frees up the event loop? I really don't think that's the case, is it? JSON.parse is gonna be blocking/synchronous whenever it happens.

Can you explain a bit more of the implementation you're describing?

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roblabla10y ago

You can use setTimeout to "free up the event loop". Using setTimeout(fun, 0) will run fun after the event loop has been freed up IIRC. NodeJS has a function called setImmediate that does exactly that.

JSON.parse as implemented is going to be blocking. But it's possible to implement an asynchronous, non-blocking JSON parser

Edit : requestAnimationFrame is a better alternative to setTimeout(fun, 0), as it allows the browser to update the UI.

pfooti10y ago

Not the parsing part, but the processing part. Assume I've got a big pile of data and am calculating stuff like correlations on it. If I break the process up into chunks, I can go chunk.then(nextChunk).then(afterThat) etc etc. JSON.parse still blocks, but it's the post-processing I'm talking about.

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roblabla10y ago

JSON.parse as implemented is going to be blocking. But it's possible to implement an asynchronous, non-blocking JSON parser

Edit : requestAnimationFrame is a better alternative to setTimeout(fun, 0), as it allows the browser to update the UI.

pfooti10y ago

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