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- # Overview
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- Adds support for the `timers` module to browserify.
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- ## Wait, isn't it already supported in the browser?
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- The public methods of the `timers` module are:
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- * `setTimeout(callback, delay, [arg], [...])`
- * `clearTimeout(timeoutId)`
- * `setInterval(callback, delay, [arg], [...])`
- * `clearInterval(intervalId)`
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- and indeed, browsers support these already.
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- ## So, why does this exist?
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- The `timers` module also includes some private methods used in other built-in
- Node.js modules:
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- * `enroll(item, delay)`
- * `unenroll(item)`
- * `active(item)`
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- These are used to efficiently support a large quantity of timers with the same
- timeouts by creating only a few timers under the covers.
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- Node.js also offers the `immediate` APIs, which aren't yet available cross-browser, so we polyfill those:
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- * `setImmediate(callback, [arg], [...])`
- * `clearImmediate(immediateId)`
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- ## I need lots of timers and want to use linked list timers as Node.js does.
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- Linked lists are efficient when you have thousands (millions?) of timers with the same delay.
- Take a look at [timers-browserify-full](https://www.npmjs.com/package/timers-browserify-full) in this case.
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- # License
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- [MIT](http://jryans.mit-license.org/)
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