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Looks like the test failures are unrelated and also present on |
This is particularly useful in web environments where setImmediate() may be temporarily paused by the browser. When a high resource usage tab is put in the background, browsers often pause timer usage until the app is foregrounded again. For some web applications, performing background network requests even when backgrounded itself is useful and may wish to avoid use of setImmediate, understanding the risk in potentially doing so.
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npm testlocally and all tests are passing. (I'm relying on the CI for this, as the tests don't run on my environment to begin with)PR Description
This is particularly useful in web environments where setImmediate() may be temporarily paused by the browser. When a high resource usage tab is put in the background, browsers often pause timer usage until the app is foregrounded again. For some web applications, performing background network requests even when backgrounded itself is useful and may wish to avoid use of setImmediate, understanding the risk in potentially doing so.