setTimeout, etc?

[tlrobinson]

Workers don't have access to setTimeout, setInterval, etc.

[audreyt]

Indeed, the HTML timer spec is not native to v8 and will need to be re-implemented in C++ level.

[andywer]

Would need this functionality, too. Is there a work-around for now?

[audreyt]

Yes, if it's OK to ignore the milliseconds...

function setTimeout (cb, ms) { return thread.nextTick(cb); }

[mitar]

This is to me the largest issue with web workers on node.js. Also, one thing to keep in mind is that terminate has to terminate also all current timers, but only for that particular web workers. This is an issue for example currently, if one wants to use vm to do some type of web workers, is that vm does not have terminate.

[felixbanguera]

Hi @audreyt ,
when you mention the work around for setTimeout is:
function setTimeout (cb, ms) { return thread.nextTick(cb); }

Can you writhe a functional example of this? not sure what you mean with cb.

What I'm trying to do on tests purposes is to emit a thread event with a delay.

thks