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So, I've been thinking about a brain teaser - what if I had a large object I for some reason had to iterate through in node js, and didn't want to block the event loop while I was doing that?
Here's an off-the-top-of-my-head example, I'm sure it can be much cleaner:
var forin = function(obj,callback){
var keys = Object.keys(obj),
index = 0,
interval = setInterval(function(){
if(index < keys.length){
callback(keys[index],obj[keys[index]],obj);
} else {
clearInterval(interval);
}
index ++;
},0);
}
While I'm sure there are other reasons for it being messy, this will execute slower than a regular for loop, because setInterval 0 doesn't actually execute every 0 ms, but I'm not sure how to make a loop with the much faster process.nextTick.
In my tests, I found this example takes 7 ms to run, as opposed to a native for loop (with hasOwnProperty() checks, logging the same info), which takes 4 ms.
So, what's the cleanest/fastest way to write this same code using node.js?