Source: node-setimmediate Section: web Priority: optional Maintainer: Debian Javascript Maintainers Uploaders: Thorsten Alteholz Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 9) , dh-buildinfo , nodejs Standards-Version: 3.9.8 Homepage: https://github.com/YuzuJS/setImmediate Vcs-Git: https://anonscm.debian.org/git/pkg-javascript/node-setimmediate.git Vcs-Browser: https://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=pkg-javascript/node-setimmediate.git Package: node-setimmediate Architecture: all Depends: ${misc:Depends} , nodejs Description: shim for the setImmediate efficient script yielding API setImmediate.js is a highly cross-browser implementation of the setImmediate and clearImmediate APIs, proposed by Microsoft to the Web Performance Working Group. . setImmediate allows scripts to yield to the browser, executing a given operation asynchronously, in a manner that is typically more efficient and consumes less power than the usual setTimeout(..., 0) pattern. . Node.js is an event-based server-side JavaScript engine.