timers: clarify lib/timer.js comment · nodejs/node@f49feab

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@@ -72,7 +72,7 @@ const TIMEOUT_MAX = 2147483647; // 2^31-1

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// timeout later, thus only needing to be appended.

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// Removal from an object-property linked list is also virtually constant-time

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// as can be seen in the lib/internal/linkedlist.js implementation.

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// Timeouts only need to process any timers due to currently timeout, which will

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// Timeouts only need to process any timers currently due to expire, which will

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// always be at the beginning of the list for reasons stated above. Any timers

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// after the first one encountered that does not yet need to timeout will also

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// always be due to timeout at a later time.