Comment #8 on issue 871 by pekka.klarck: Timeout speed optimization http://code.google.com/p/robotframework/issues/detail?id=871
Here's some more reading related to this: http://eli.thegreenplace.net/2011/08/22/how-not-to-set-a-timeout-on-a-computation-in-python/I'm starting to believe it's best to educate users not to use timeouts unless they really need them. And even then they should consider other approaches.
