On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 12:16 PM, Matt Hammond <[email protected]>wrote:

> The attraction to me if the simplicity of use and the lower overheads
>>> compared to using a threaded component to send timing signalling.
>>>
>>
>  With the understanding of blocking the whole Python process (hence the
>> scheduler) by not using a thread for the timer.
>>
>
> It doesn't block the scheduler. It uses the python Timer class, which uses
> a thread. When the timer times-out, the component is re-awoken, if paused.
>
>
>
Damn, that'll teach in reading the code more properly. I assumed it was a
time.sleep(...). Sorry for that.



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