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dayjaby on June 29, 2023 | parent | context | favorite | on: Tasks, microtasks, queues and schedules (2015)

I don't get the point why to predict the execution order in some asynchronous code?

nvahalik on June 29, 2023 [–]

I don't think it's so much about "predicting execution" as exposing the underlying mechanisms that browsers supply for handling asynchronous tasks. The "order" essentially is a priority system, is it not?

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