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I just found out you can sync sleep in JavaScript. I’m using it to implement multi-process sync file locks that need to interoperate with a large non-async fram

by jitl 2y ago

I just found out you can sync sleep in JavaScript. I’m using it to implement multi-process sync file locks that need to interoperate with a large non-async framework (eslint). Atomics.wait(this.sleepBuffer, 0, 0, ms)

sebstefan 2y ago
What the fuck? >Thrown in one of the following cases: >If the current thread cannot be blocked (for example, because it's the main thread). I guess that's why it's not so widely used
- jitl 2y ago
  It's not permitted on the browser main thread, but works fine on the Node main thread.