Source: node-setimmediate Maintainer: Debian Javascript Maintainers Uploaders: Thorsten Alteholz Section: javascript Testsuite: autopkgtest-pkg-nodejs Priority: optional Build-Depends: debhelper-compat (= 12), dh-buildinfo, nodejs, mocha (>= 3) , pkg-js-tools (>= 0.8.8) Standards-Version: 4.4.0 Vcs-Browser: https://salsa.debian.org/js-team/node-setimmediate Vcs-Git: https://salsa.debian.org/js-team/node-setimmediate.git Homepage: https://github.com/YuzuJS/setImmediate Package: node-setimmediate Architecture: all Depends: ${misc:Depends}, nodejs Suggests: libjs-mocha (>= 3), libjs-chai 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.