Make-process.nextTick-worlds-faster-for-large-queues.patch

From 40254b255250d5b889699eb655c8d30c00d322a3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Tim Caswell <tim@creationix.com>
Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2010 18:58:28 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] Make process.nextTick worlds faster for large queues.

---
 src/node.js |    7 +++++--
 1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/node.js b/src/node.js
index d38f12d..82a5937 100644
--- a/src/node.js
+++ b/src/node.js
@@ -47,9 +47,12 @@ process.evalcx = function () {
 var nextTickQueue = [];
 
 process._tickCallback = function () {
-  for (var l = nextTickQueue.length; l; l--) {
-    nextTickQueue.shift()();
+  var l = nextTickQueue.length;
+  if (l === 0) return;
+  for (var i = 0; i < l; i++) {
+    nextTickQueue[i]();
   }
+  nextTickQueue.splice(0, l);
 };
 
 process.nextTick = function (callback) {
-- 
1.7.2

You think this would be any faster?

var l = nextTickQueue.length, i = 0;
if (l === 0) return;
while (i < l) {
  nextTickQueue[i++]();
}

not by much no, over optimization