process.nextTick vs setTimeout(fn, 0)

nextTick.js

for (var i = 0; i < 1024 * 1024; i++) {
  process.nextTick(function () { Math.sqrt(i) } )
}

results.md

Results

Intel i7 890 @ 2.93 GHz x64, node compiled with -march=native -mtune=native:

$ time node nextTick.js 

real	0m0.344s
user	0m0.276s
sys 	0m0.067s

$ time node setTimeout.js 

real	0m9.125s
user	0m8.707s
sys 	0m0.410s

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setTimeout.js

for (var i = 0; i < 1024 * 1024; i++) {
  setTimeout(function () { Math.sqrt(i) }, 0)
}

on ubuntu virtual machine

time node nextTick.js

real	0m0.669s
user	0m0.487s
sys	0m0.357s


time node setTimeout.js

real	0m1.513s
user	0m1.709s
sys	0m0.090s