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December 2018

— Okay, show me

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Hz makes it so all code in the whole program could run concurrently, and when you use spawn then this preparation is used... but also, if there is an un-prepared part of the code, it disrupts the concurrency from working at all

— What to show? There is no threads in browser🤤 If they make some good interface, someday, maybe

— So even non-concurrent code must run concurrently to enable the concurrent code to run, the only difference is that the former is run in a "logically" non-concurrent mode so it thinks it is running regularly

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— It's a trick

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const logForever = n => {
  while (true) console.log(n);
};


make logForever run concurrently with itself, logging:
1
2
1
2
1
2

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— How do you decide to do this without hertz?

— Pretty simply, recursive setTimeout

— With hertz:

spawn logForever(1);
spawn logForever(2);

— Its when your code scales up when that becomes costly

— Without changing the implementation of logForever

— Ah, right, you would have to without hz