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mxtopher on Feb 9, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: Annotated code: Circles bouncing off lines

so tick calls requestAnimationFrame that calls tick that... Doesn't it create an ever growing stack? Isn't there a way to do it with a while loop?

Rusky on Feb 9, 2015 | [–]

requestAnimationFrame just queues up the callback for later, it doesn't actually call into it. There's no stack growth.

zerocrates on Feb 9, 2015 | [–]

It doesn't create an ever-growing stack.

tick calls requestAnimationFrame, tick returns, the browser waits for the next frame and calls tick...

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