timer spinner race condition

[trevnorris]

There is an issue where timers < 6ms will run before callbacks passed to nextTick when the callback is fired through _tickFromSpinner:

setTimeout(function() {
    process.nextTick(function() {
        console.error('nextTick');
    })
    setTimeout(function() {
        console.error('setTimeout');
    }, 1);
    // N setTimeout's can be created w/ timeout < 6ms
    // which will all fire before the nextTick callback
}, 1);

// output:
// setTimeout
// nextTick

This issue goes back to the v0.8 branch.

[AlexeyKupershtokh]

// N setTimeout's can be created w/ timeout < 6ms

Do you mean that if you write setTimeout(function() {...}, 5) the result would be the same?
There's a known bug #4194 that allows timers false starts but this would work for 1ms timeouts only.

[trevnorris]

Hm. I can't seem to reproduce it and didn't keep anything on it. Well, whatever.