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Discussion on: Using setTimeout in JavaScript

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Swastik Upadhye

It is beacause setTimeout doesnt guarantee to executre exactly after given time... It means minimum this much time is required...to check this add a settimeout with 500ms.. And then add a for loop that takes 5 sec to eexcute...and check whether the handler in setTimeout executes first or not