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What are the underlying patterns in systems allowing asynchronous operations?
Say I'm working with a system that allows async, nonblocking operations. If I queue up a set of those operations and specify their result buffer references: nonblocking_write( message, write_buffer )...
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Why do browsers clamp timeouts and intervals?
I've been working on some abstractions of setTimeout and setInterval in order to process large sets of data without blocking the event loop in the browser. Upon this, I have discovered that browsers "...
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Futures/Monads vs Events
In an application framework when performance impact can be ignored (10-20 events per second at max), what is more maintainable and flexible to use as a preferred medium for communication between ...
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