Bringing setTimeout to ECMAScript

[Sam Tobin-Hochstadt]

On Sat, Mar 19, 2011 at 6:50 PM, Brendan Eich <brendan at mozilla.com> wrote:
> setTimeout does not introduce threads, shared memory among them, or even
> non-determinism if we spec carefully (browsers have to implement carefully
> already).

`setTimeout' already introduces nondeterminism based on the speed of
the implementation.  Consider:

setTimeout(f1,1000)
compute()
setTimeout(f2,0)

If `compute' takes a long time, then `f1' runs before `f2', otherwise
`f2' runs first.

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sam th
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