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Harden concurrency() limiter with comprehensive edge case handling

Open Copilot opened this issue 6 months ago • 1 comments

Problem

The concurrency() function had a critical bug where invalid limit values (≤ 0, NaN, Infinity) would cause tasks to never execute, resulting in infinite hangs. This occurred because the condition workers < limit would never be true for these edge cases.

// These would hang indefinitely before the fix
const limiter = concurrency(0);
await limiter(() => console.log('This never executes'));

const limiter2 = concurrency(-1);  
await limiter2(() => console.log('This never executes either'));

Solution

Added robust input validation and normalization:

  • Zero/negative limits → normalized to minimum of 1
  • Non-integer limits → floored to integers (e.g., 2.7 → 2)
  • NaN/Infinity → defaulted to 1

The fix ensures all edge cases work correctly while maintaining 100% backward compatibility for valid inputs.

Testing

Added comprehensive test coverage with 12 new test cases covering:

  • Invalid limit value handling and normalization
  • Error propagation between concurrent tasks
  • High-volume concurrent execution (100+ tasks)
  • Immediately completing tasks
  • Very large limit values
  • Empty queue scenarios
  • Proper scope/context maintenance

All 388 tests now pass, including the original 132 concurrency tests plus the new edge case tests.

Code Quality

Improved code clarity by:

  • Extracting limit validation logic
  • Replacing confusing comma operators with explicit control flow
  • Adding clear variable naming

Fixes #101.


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