Just found this in a legacy Angular1 app. It's in production btw.

😶

Why a for loop when you can just use while (true)

:P

@filthyranter a timeout haha

Crap.

Angry reacts only. 😠

1) how often is i incremented?

2) why is the limit hard-coded?

3) why is a new Date being created every iteration (holy performance Batman)

4) how long will this actually run??

Did I miss any big problems? I'm new someone help me troubleshoot this monstrosity

It's only used in one file, for 100ms sleeps. Purpose is unknown but as far as I deduce it's used at the end of the iteratee of a very convoluted for loop, possibly to "make sure" the current iteration is finished before moving on.

On current CPUs it actually has a fairly good chance of blocking for approximately 100ms, but cranking the time up will lead to unexpected results 😀

When you want a synchronous setTimeout /facepalm

@Crazed Lol you're worried about performance? It literally stalls the browser until the time is elapsed.

… or it would, if it didn't give up after 10000000 iterations. @mzeffect

@devios1 "im new" so yes

@Crazed Well the apparent point of this monstrosity is to be as intentionally un-performant (is that a word?) as possible, in order to stall all execution for a given time.

…which is terrible practice because it will very likely also stall the whole browser, or at least slow it down, when a timeout could have been used to do it asynchronously and …performantly.