Killing a JavaScript function which runs infinite

Question

As an example

var runInfinite = function(){
    while(1)
    {
       // Do stuff;
    }
};

setTimeout(runInfinite, 0);

Is it possible to

Answer 1

I admit this is not exactly the same, but, there are the Javascript generators and Javascript iterators in ECMA-262. If you can replace your function with a generator function, then, you can implement the breakable feature easily.

function execWithTimeout(iter, timeout = 100) {
    const limit = Date.now() + timeout
    for (const output of iter) {
        console.log(output)
        if (Date.now() > limit) throw(new Error("Timeout reached"))
    }
}

let runInfinite = function * () {
    let i = 0
    while (1) {
        yield i++
    }
}

execWithTimeout(runInfinite())