setTimeout behaviour with blocking code

Question

This is my test code (fiddle here):

console.log(\'Before wait\');
setTimeout(function () { console.log(\'Yo!\'); }, 1000);
var start = Date.now();
while (Dat         


        

Answer 1

Not sure if it could help you but this problem's been explained in: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/EventLoop#Run-to-completion

For this reason, the second argument indicates a minimum time—not a guaranteed time.