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process.nextTick polyfill is slow when tab is unfocused

Open satazor opened this issue 6 years ago • 0 comments
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The nextTick polyfill is supplied by https://github.com/defunctzombie/node-process/blob/master/browser.js which uses timers. See: https://github.com/defunctzombie/node-process/issues/86.

Because timers are often throttled when a tab is not active to improve battery life, they only run at 1Hz (once every second). This has a drastic performance impact in those scenarios.

It seems that the author won't change this for the time being, see: https://github.com/webtorrent/webtorrent/issues/1568#issuecomment-453682828

It would be cool to just map nextTick to setImmediate, as we are already providing that polyfill.

satazor avatar Jun 14 '19 14:06 satazor