Setting JavaScript Timeout limit in Google Chrome

Question

Is it possible to increase the time out limit for JavaScript?

If I have a script that executes for more than 20/30 seconds chrome will pop-up with the unresponsable

Answer 1

To split the function on steps/chunks and run those inside setInterval(function(){}). This way page will be responsive, you will be able to notify user about progress of execution and you will get your job done.

UPDATE: Here is simple function that takes worker function executing each iteration, chunksz - number of iteration running in single chunk maxit - total number of iterations.

function task(worker, chunksz, maxit)
{
  var idx = 0;
  var xint = null;
  function exec_chunk() 
  {
     for(var n = 0; n < chunksz; ++n)
     {
       if(idx >= maxit) { return; }
       worker(idx++);
     }
     setTimeout(exec_chunk,1);
  }
  exec_chunk();
}

Here is an example : http://jsfiddle.net/Ed9wL/ As you see you get all iterations in order.

UPDATE2:

Say you have a loop:

 for(var i=0; i<100000; ++i) { ... do something ... }

then you need to wrap body of the loop into a function and call the task above with it like this:

task(function(i){ ... do something ... },100, 100000);

or like this:

function loopBody(i){ ... do something ... }
task(loopBody,100, 100000);