diff --git a/lib/internal/process/next_tick.js b/lib/internal/process/next_tick.js
index bf7d0bc94dc4ce..2f68783d91800d 100644
--- a/lib/internal/process/next_tick.js
+++ b/lib/internal/process/next_tick.js
@@ -1,47 +1,9 @@
 'use strict';
 
-// This value is used to prevent the nextTickQueue from becoming too
-// large and cause the process to run out of memory. When this value
-// is reached the nextTimeQueue array will be shortened (see tickDone
-// for details).
-const kMaxCallbacksPerLoop = 1e4;
-
 exports.setup = setupNextTick;
 // Will be overwritten when setupNextTick() is called.
 exports.nextTick = null;
 
-class NextTickQueue {
-  constructor() {
-    this.head = null;
-    this.tail = null;
-  }
-
-  push(v) {
-    const entry = { data: v, next: null };
-    if (this.tail !== null)
-      this.tail.next = entry;
-    else
-      this.head = entry;
-    this.tail = entry;
-  }
-
-  shift() {
-    if (this.head === null)
-      return;
-    const ret = this.head.data;
-    if (this.head === this.tail)
-      this.head = this.tail = null;
-    else
-      this.head = this.head.next;
-    return ret;
-  }
-
-  clear() {
-    this.head = null;
-    this.tail = null;
-  }
-}
-
 function setupNextTick() {
   const async_wrap = process.binding('async_wrap');
   const async_hooks = require('internal/async_hooks');
@@ -56,15 +18,47 @@ function setupNextTick() {
   // Grab the constants necessary for working with internal arrays.
   const { kInit, kDestroy, kAsyncIdCounter } = async_wrap.constants;
   const { async_id_symbol, trigger_async_id_symbol } = async_wrap;
-  const nextTickQueue = new NextTickQueue();
-  var microtasksScheduled = false;
 
-  // Used to run V8's micro task queue.
-  var _runMicrotasks = {};
+  // tickInfo is used so that the C++ code in src/node.cc can
+  // have easy access to our nextTick state, and avoid unnecessary
+  // calls into JS land.
+  // runMicrotasks is used to run V8's micro task queue.
+  const [
+    tickInfo,
+    runMicrotasks
+  ] = process._setupNextTick(_tickCallback);
 
   // *Must* match Environment::TickInfo::Fields in src/env.h.
-  var kIndex = 0;
-  var kLength = 1;
+  const kScheduled = 0;
+
+  const nextTickQueue = {
+    head: null,
+    tail: null,
+    push(data) {
+      const entry = { data, next: null };
+      if (this.tail !== null) {
+        this.tail.next = entry;
+      } else {
+        this.head = entry;
+        tickInfo[kScheduled] = 1;
+      }
+      this.tail = entry;
+    },
+    shift() {
+      if (this.head === null)
+        return;
+      const ret = this.head.data;
+      if (this.head === this.tail) {
+        this.head = this.tail = null;
+        tickInfo[kScheduled] = 0;
+      } else {
+        this.head = this.head.next;
+      }
+      return ret;
+    }
+  };
+
+  var microtasksScheduled = false;
 
   process.nextTick = nextTick;
   // Needs to be accessible from beyond this scope.
@@ -73,25 +67,6 @@ function setupNextTick() {
   // Set the nextTick() function for internal usage.
   exports.nextTick = internalNextTick;
 
-  // This tickInfo thing is used so that the C++ code in src/node.cc
-  // can have easy access to our nextTick state, and avoid unnecessary
-  // calls into JS land.
-  const tickInfo = process._setupNextTick(_tickCallback, _runMicrotasks);
-
-  _runMicrotasks = _runMicrotasks.runMicrotasks;
-
-  function tickDone() {
-    if (tickInfo[kLength] !== 0) {
-      if (tickInfo[kLength] <= tickInfo[kIndex]) {
-        nextTickQueue.clear();
-        tickInfo[kLength] = 0;
-      } else {
-        tickInfo[kLength] -= tickInfo[kIndex];
-      }
-    }
-    tickInfo[kIndex] = 0;
-  }
-
   const microTasksTickObject = {
     callback: runMicrotasksCallback,
     args: undefined,
@@ -105,38 +80,27 @@ function setupNextTick() {
     // For the moment all microtasks come from the void until the PromiseHook
     // API is implemented.
     nextTickQueue.push(microTasksTickObject);
-
-    tickInfo[kLength]++;
     microtasksScheduled = true;
   }
 
   function runMicrotasksCallback() {
     microtasksScheduled = false;
-    _runMicrotasks();
+    runMicrotasks();
 
-    if (tickInfo[kIndex] < tickInfo[kLength] ||
-        emitPendingUnhandledRejections()) {
+    if (nextTickQueue.head !== null || emitPendingUnhandledRejections())
       scheduleMicrotasks();
-    }
   }
 
   function _tickCallback() {
+    let tock;
     do {
-      while (tickInfo[kIndex] < tickInfo[kLength]) {
-        ++tickInfo[kIndex];
-        const tock = nextTickQueue.shift();
-
-        // CHECK(Number.isSafeInteger(tock[async_id_symbol]))
-        // CHECK(tock[async_id_symbol] > 0)
-        // CHECK(Number.isSafeInteger(tock[trigger_async_id_symbol]))
-        // CHECK(tock[trigger_async_id_symbol] > 0)
-
+      while (tock = nextTickQueue.shift()) {
         const asyncId = tock[async_id_symbol];
         emitBefore(asyncId, tock[trigger_async_id_symbol]);
         // emitDestroy() places the async_id_symbol into an asynchronous queue
         // that calls the destroy callback in the future. It's called before
         // calling tock.callback so destroy will be called even if the callback
-        // throws an exception that is handles by 'uncaughtException' or a
+        // throws an exception that is handled by 'uncaughtException' or a
         // domain.
         // TODO(trevnorris): This is a bit of a hack. It relies on the fact
         // that nextTick() doesn't allow the event loop to proceed, but if
@@ -152,24 +116,21 @@ function setupNextTick() {
           Reflect.apply(callback, undefined, tock.args);
 
         emitAfter(asyncId);
-
-        if (kMaxCallbacksPerLoop < tickInfo[kIndex])
-          tickDone();
       }
-      tickDone();
-      _runMicrotasks();
+      runMicrotasks();
       emitPendingUnhandledRejections();
-    } while (tickInfo[kLength] !== 0);
+    } while (nextTickQueue.head !== null);
   }
 
   class TickObject {
-    constructor(callback, args, asyncId, triggerAsyncId) {
+    constructor(callback, args, triggerAsyncId) {
       // this must be set to null first to avoid function tracking
       // on the hidden class, revisit in V8 versions after 6.2
       this.callback = null;
       this.callback = callback;
       this.args = args;
 
+      const asyncId = ++async_id_fields[kAsyncIdCounter];
       this[async_id_symbol] = asyncId;
       this[trigger_async_id_symbol] = triggerAsyncId;
 
@@ -203,13 +164,7 @@ function setupNextTick() {
           args[i - 1] = arguments[i];
     }
 
-    // In V8 6.2, moving tickInfo & async_id_fields[kAsyncIdCounter] into the
-    // TickObject incurs a significant performance penalty in the
-    // next-tick-breadth-args benchmark (revisit later)
-    ++tickInfo[kLength];
-    nextTickQueue.push(new TickObject(callback,
-                                      args,
-                                      ++async_id_fields[kAsyncIdCounter],
+    nextTickQueue.push(new TickObject(callback, args,
                                       getDefaultTriggerAsyncId()));
   }
 
@@ -238,13 +193,6 @@ function setupNextTick() {
 
     if (triggerAsyncId === null)
       triggerAsyncId = getDefaultTriggerAsyncId();
-    // In V8 6.2, moving tickInfo & async_id_fields[kAsyncIdCounter] into the
-    // TickObject incurs a significant performance penalty in the
-    // next-tick-breadth-args benchmark (revisit later)
-    ++tickInfo[kLength];
-    nextTickQueue.push(new TickObject(callback,
-                                      args,
-                                      ++async_id_fields[kAsyncIdCounter],
-                                      triggerAsyncId));
+    nextTickQueue.push(new TickObject(callback, args, triggerAsyncId));
   }
 }
diff --git a/src/env-inl.h b/src/env-inl.h
index bf919644dfbe49..476be6763d1248 100644
--- a/src/env-inl.h
+++ b/src/env-inl.h
@@ -222,7 +222,7 @@ inline Environment::TickInfo::TickInfo() {
     fields_[i] = 0;
 }
 
-inline uint32_t* Environment::TickInfo::fields() {
+inline uint8_t* Environment::TickInfo::fields() {
   return fields_;
 }
 
@@ -230,16 +230,8 @@ inline int Environment::TickInfo::fields_count() const {
   return kFieldsCount;
 }
 
-inline uint32_t Environment::TickInfo::index() const {
-  return fields_[kIndex];
-}
-
-inline uint32_t Environment::TickInfo::length() const {
-  return fields_[kLength];
-}
-
-inline void Environment::TickInfo::set_index(uint32_t value) {
-  fields_[kIndex] = value;
+inline uint8_t Environment::TickInfo::scheduled() const {
+  return fields_[kScheduled];
 }
 
 inline void Environment::AssignToContext(v8::Local<v8::Context> context,
diff --git a/src/env.h b/src/env.h
index 5ebd56a3fff633..dbea629b74bbd3 100644
--- a/src/env.h
+++ b/src/env.h
@@ -452,23 +452,20 @@ class Environment {
 
   class TickInfo {
    public:
-    inline uint32_t* fields();
+    inline uint8_t* fields();
     inline int fields_count() const;
-    inline uint32_t index() const;
-    inline uint32_t length() const;
-    inline void set_index(uint32_t value);
+    inline uint8_t scheduled() const;
 
    private:
     friend class Environment;  // So we can call the constructor.
     inline TickInfo();
 
     enum Fields {
-      kIndex,
-      kLength,
+      kScheduled,
       kFieldsCount
     };
 
-    uint32_t fields_[kFieldsCount];
+    uint8_t fields_[kFieldsCount];
 
     DISALLOW_COPY_AND_ASSIGN(TickInfo);
   };
diff --git a/src/node.cc b/src/node.cc
index 0a466d20c90d88..c5b1c6be2af602 100644
--- a/src/node.cc
+++ b/src/node.cc
@@ -169,6 +169,7 @@ using v8::SealHandleScope;
 using v8::String;
 using v8::TryCatch;
 using v8::Uint32Array;
+using v8::Uint8Array;
 using v8::Undefined;
 using v8::V8;
 using v8::Value;
@@ -1144,25 +1145,32 @@ void SetupNextTick(const FunctionCallbackInfo<Value>& args) {
   Environment* env = Environment::GetCurrent(args);
 
   CHECK(args[0]->IsFunction());
-  CHECK(args[1]->IsObject());
 
   env->set_tick_callback_function(args[0].As<Function>());
 
-  env->SetMethod(args[1].As<Object>(), "runMicrotasks", RunMicrotasks);
-
-  // Do a little housekeeping.
   env->process_object()->Delete(
       env->context(),
-      FIXED_ONE_BYTE_STRING(args.GetIsolate(), "_setupNextTick")).FromJust();
+      FIXED_ONE_BYTE_STRING(env->isolate(), "_setupNextTick")).FromJust();
 
   // Values use to cross communicate with processNextTick.
-  uint32_t* const fields = env->tick_info()->fields();
-  uint32_t const fields_count = env->tick_info()->fields_count();
+  uint8_t* const fields = env->tick_info()->fields();
+  uint8_t const fields_count = env->tick_info()->fields_count();
 
   Local<ArrayBuffer> array_buffer =
       ArrayBuffer::New(env->isolate(), fields, sizeof(*fields) * fields_count);
 
-  args.GetReturnValue().Set(Uint32Array::New(array_buffer, 0, fields_count));
+  v8::Local<v8::Function> run_microtasks_fn =
+      env->NewFunctionTemplate(RunMicrotasks)->GetFunction(env->context())
+          .ToLocalChecked();
+  run_microtasks_fn->SetName(
+      FIXED_ONE_BYTE_STRING(env->isolate(), "runMicrotasks"));
+
+  Local<Array> ret = Array::New(env->isolate(), 2);
+  ret->Set(env->context(), 0,
+           Uint8Array::New(array_buffer, 0, fields_count)).FromJust();
+  ret->Set(env->context(), 1, run_microtasks_fn).FromJust();
+
+  args.GetReturnValue().Set(ret);
 }
 
 void PromiseRejectCallback(PromiseRejectMessage message) {
@@ -1278,7 +1286,7 @@ void InternalCallbackScope::Close() {
 
   Environment::TickInfo* tick_info = env_->tick_info();
 
-  if (tick_info->length() == 0) {
+  if (tick_info->scheduled() == 0) {
     env_->isolate()->RunMicrotasks();
   }
 
@@ -1289,10 +1297,7 @@ void InternalCallbackScope::Close() {
     CHECK_EQ(env_->trigger_async_id(), 0);
   }
 
-  Local<Object> process = env_->process_object();
-
-  if (tick_info->length() == 0) {
-    tick_info->set_index(0);
+  if (tick_info->scheduled() == 0) {
     return;
   }
 
@@ -1301,6 +1306,8 @@ void InternalCallbackScope::Close() {
     CHECK_EQ(env_->trigger_async_id(), 0);
   }
 
+  Local<Object> process = env_->process_object();
+
   if (env_->tick_callback_function()->Call(process, 0, nullptr).IsEmpty()) {
     failed_ = true;
   }