Giampaolo Rodola' added the comment: > The new asyncio module doesn't have this performance issue > On Unix, the default implementation sets an handler for SIGCHLD signal which > calls waitpid(pid, WNOHANG) on all processes to detect process exit. But it > has > also a faster implementation which calls waitpid(-1, WNOHANG) only once.
But that is still a busy loop, no? My understanding was that the goal of this ticket was to figure out a strategy to get rid of that. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue12187> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
