alt Hacker News> Even if you’ve been doing JavaScript for a while, you might be surprised to learn that setTimeout(0) is not really setTimeout(0). Instead, it could run 4 milliseconds later:
Is this still the case? Even with this change? https://chromestatus.com/feature/4889002157015040
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timhh • yesterday at 7:17 PM
I think that change is talking about the minimum timeout for the first 5 nested calls to `setTimeout(0)`.
Previously the first 5 would take 1ms, and then the rest would take 4ms. After that change the first 5 take 0ms and the rest take 4ms.
I think it's still the case. The 4ms happens if you call setTimeout nested several times. I don't know the exact limit. But it's 5-ish times where that kicks in IIRC.
Edit: Here's the MDN bit on that, I was correct:
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Window/setT...
> browsers will enforce a minimum timeout of 4 milliseconds once a nested call to setTimeout has been scheduled 5 times.
And the link from there to the spec about that:
https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/timers-and-user-promp...
> If nesting level is greater than 5, and timeout is less than 4, then set timeout to 4.