Reschedulable Timer for your node needs
npm install retimerreschedulable setTimeout for your node needs. This library is built for
building a keep alive functionality across a large numbers of
clients/sockets.
Rescheduling a 10000 functions 20 times with an interval of 50ms (seebench.js), with 100 repetitions:
benchSetTimeout100: 40.295s
benchRetimer100: 36.122s
``
npm install retimer --save
`js
var retimer = require('retimer')
var timer = retimer(function () {
throw new Error('this should never get called!')
}, 20)
setTimeout(function () {
timer.reschedule(50)
setTimeout(function () {
timer.clear()
}, 10)
}, 10)
`
Exactly like your beloved setTimeout.Retimer object
Returns a
Reschedule the timer.
Retimer will not gove any performance benefit if the specified timeout comes __before__ the original timeout.
Clear the timer, like your beloved clearTimeout`.
Timers are stored in a Linked List in node.js, if you create a lot of
timers this Linked List becomes massive which makes __removing a timer an expensive operation__.
Retimer let the old timer run at its time, and schedule a new one accordingly, when the new one is __after__ the original timeout.
There is no performance gain when the new timeout is before the original one as retimer will just __remove the previous timer__.
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