Are equal timeouts executed in order in Javascript?

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It is not safe to rely on this behavior. I wrote a test script which schedules a number of functions (and they in turn also schedule a number of functions) all using setTimeout(…, 0), and the order in which the functions were called was not always the same as the order in which setTimeout was called (at least in Chrome 11, which I used to run the script).

You can see/run the script here: http://jsfiddle.net/se9Jn/
(the script uses YUI for cross-browser compatibility, but Y.later uses setTimeout internally).

Note that if you just run the script and stare at the console, you will probably not see an offending ordering. But if start the script, switch to another tab, load some pages, and come back to the test page, you should see errors about callbacks out of order in the console.

If you need a guaranteed ordering, I would recommend scheduling the next function at the end of the previous function:

setTimeout(foo, 0);

...

function foo() {

    ...

    setTimeout(bar, 0);
}

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