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bufferoverflow ◴[19 Oct 24 06:15 UTC] No.41885979[source]▶
setTimeout is stranger than you think.

We recently had a failed unit test because setTimeout(fn, 1000) triggered at 999ms. That test had ran more than a hundred times before just fine. Till one day it didn't.

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gregoriol ◴[19 Oct 24 07:09 UTC] No.41886191[source]▶
I don't think there is any guarantee that setTimeout will run at exactly 1000. Though didn't expect it to run earlier, it definitely could run later.
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1. bufferoverflow ◴[20 Oct 24 05:49 UTC] No.41893177[source]▶
Same. I expected it could take a few ms longer. But less? Apparently that's a thing.