delayed-execution – Tarik Billa

what is the difference between thunk, futures, and promises?

January 8, 2024 by Tarik

An example of each, using javascript since everybody can read it. Please don’t use this code in production, use a real library, there are plenty of good ones. var a, b, c, async_obj; // assume exist // CommonJS – for reference purposes try { async_obj.asyncMethod(a, b, c, function (error1, result1) { if (error1) { console.error(error1); … Read more

PHP sleep delay

August 28, 2023 by Tarik

Compare using Thread.Sleep and Timer for delayed execution

March 13, 2023 by Tarik

One difference is that System.Threading.Timer dispatches the callback on a thread pool thread, rather than creating a new thread every time. If you need this to happen more than once during the life of your application, this will save the overhead of creating and destroying a bunch of threads (a process which is very resource … Read more