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Call function at most once per every [wait] milliseconds. Useful for rate-limiting.
window.addEventListener('resize', throttle(resizer, 200));
function throttle(func, wait) {
// from underscore.js
var _now = Date.now || function() { return new Date().getTime(); },
context, args, result, timeout = null, previous = 0;
var later = function() {
previous = _now();
timeout = null;
result = func.apply(context, args);
if (!timeout) context = args = null;
};
return function() {
var now = _now(), remaining = wait - (now - previous);
context = this;
args = arguments;
if (remaining <= 0 || remaining > wait) {
if (timeout) {
clearTimeout(timeout);
timeout = null;
}
previous = now;
result = func.apply(context, args);
if (!timeout) context = args = null;
} else if (!timeout && options.trailing !== false) {
timeout = setTimeout(later, remaining);
}
return result;
};
}
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