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November 16, 2018 14:21
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Suppose you want to do complex calculations in JavaScript without blocking the Event Loop. You could partition your calculations so that each runs on the Event Loop but regularly yields (gives turns to) other pending events. In JavaScript it's easy to save the state of an ongoing task in a closure
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function asyncExec(func, load, jobs) { | |
let done = false; | |
let value; | |
const makeDone = () => done = true; | |
return new Promise((resolve) => { | |
function executor(cb) { | |
if (!done) { | |
value = cb(); | |
setImmediate(executor.bind(null, cb)); | |
} else { | |
resolve(value); | |
} | |
} | |
executor(func(makeDone, load, jobs)); | |
}); | |
} | |
const sum = (done, load, jobs) => { | |
let value = 0; | |
let currentJob = 1; | |
return function () { | |
let lastJob = currentJob + load < jobs ? currentJob + load : jobs; | |
for (; currentJob <= lastJob; currentJob++) { | |
value += currentJob; | |
} | |
if (currentJob === jobs + 1) { | |
done(); | |
} | |
return value; | |
}; | |
}; | |
(async () => { | |
console.log(await asyncExec(sum, 5, 5)); | |
})(); |
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