Use the timer list for setTimeout

benchmark/settimeout.js

@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
+console.log("wait...");
+var done = 0;
+var N = 5000000;
+var begin = new Date();
+for (var i = 0; i < N; i++) {
+  setTimeout(function () {
+    if (++done == N) {
+      var end = new Date();
+      console.log("smaller is better");
+      console.log("startup: %d", start - begin);
+      console.log("done: %d", end - start);
+    }
+  }, 1000);
+}
+var start = new Date();

lib/timers.js

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 var Timer = process.binding('timer').Timer;
 var assert = process.assert;
 
-/* 
+/*
  * To enable debug statements for the timers do NODE_DEBUG=8 ./node script.js
  */
 var debugLevel = parseInt(process.env.NODE_DEBUG, 16);
@@ -48,9 +48,8 @@ function remove (item) {
 
 // remove a item from its list and place at the end.
 function append (list, item) {
-  remove(item);
   item._idleNext = list._idleNext;
-  item._idleNext._idlePrev = item;
+  list._idleNext._idlePrev = item;
   item._idlePrev = list;
   list._idleNext = item;
 }
@@ -62,7 +61,7 @@ function insert (item, msecs) {
   item._idleStart = new Date();
   item._idleTimeout = msecs;
 
-  if (!msecs) return;
+  if (msecs < 0) return;
 
   var list;
 
@@ -90,23 +89,23 @@ function insert (item, msecs) {
           return;
         } else {
           remove(first);
-          assert(first != peek(list));
+          assert(first !== peek(list));
           if (first._onTimeout) first._onTimeout();
         }
       }
       debug(msecs + ' list empty');
-      assert(list._idleNext == list); // list is empty
+      assert(list._idleNext === list); // list is empty
       list.stop();
     };
   }
 
-  if (list._idleNext == list) {
+  if (list._idleNext === list) {
     // if empty (re)start the timer
     list.again(msecs);
   }
 
   append(list, item);
-  assert(list._idleNext != list); // list is not empty
+  assert(list._idleNext !== list); // list is not empty
 }
 
 
@@ -141,7 +140,7 @@ exports.enroll = function (item, msecs) {
 // it will reset its timeout.
 exports.active = function (item) {
   var msecs = item._idleTimeout;
-  if (msecs) {
+  if (msecs >= 0) {
     var list = lists[msecs];
     if (item._idleNext == item) {
       insert(item, msecs);
@@ -159,41 +158,83 @@ exports.active = function (item) {
 };
 
 
+/*
+ * DOM-style timers
+ */
 
 
+exports.setTimeout = function (callback, after) {
+  var timer; 
 
-// Timers
+  if (after <= 0) {
-function addTimerListener (callback) {
+    // Use the slow case for after == 0
-  var timer = this;
+    timer = new Timer();
-  // Special case the no param case to avoid the extra object creation.
+    timer.callback = callback;
+  } else {
+    timer = { _idleTimeout: after, _onTimeout: callback };
+    timer._idlePrev = timer;
+    timer._idleNext = timer;
+  }
+
+  /*
+   * Sometimes setTimeout is called with arguments, EG
+   *
+   *   setTimeout(callback, 2000, "hello", "world")
+   *
+   * If that's the case we need to call the callback with
+   * those args. The overhead of an extra closure is not
+   * desired in the normal case.
+   */
   if (arguments.length > 2) {
     var args = Array.prototype.slice.call(arguments, 2);
-    timer.callback = function () { callback.apply(timer, args); };
+    var c = function () {
-  } else {
+      callback.apply(timer, args);
-    timer.callback = callback;
+    };
+
+    if (timer instanceof Timer) {
+      timer.callback = c;
+    } else {
+      timer._onTimeout = c;
+    }
   }
-}
 
+  if (timer instanceof Timer) {
+    timer.start(0, 0);
+  } else {
+    exports.active(timer);
+  }
 
-exports.setTimeout = function (callback, after) {
-  var timer = new Timer();
-  addTimerListener.apply(timer, arguments);
-  timer.start(after, 0);
   return timer;
 };
 
+
+exports.clearTimeout = function (timer) {
+  timer.callback = timer._onTimeout = null;
+  exports.unenroll(timer);
+  if (timer instanceof Timer) timer.stop(); // for after === 0
+};
+
+
 exports.setInterval = function (callback, repeat) {
   var timer = new Timer();
-  addTimerListener.apply(timer, arguments);
+
+  if (arguments.length > 2) {
+    var args = Array.prototype.slice.call(arguments, 2);
+    timer.callback = function () {
+      callback.apply(timer, args);
+    };
+  } else {
+    timer.callback = callback;
+  }
+
   timer.start(repeat, repeat ? repeat : 1);
   return timer;
 };
 
-exports.clearTimeout = function (timer) {
+
+exports.clearInterval = function (timer) {
   if (timer instanceof Timer) {
     timer.callback = null;
     timer.stop();
   }
 };
-
-exports.clearInterval = exports.clearTimeout;