Re: [Python-Dev] Signals+Threads (PyGTK waking up 10x/sec).

[Greg Ewing]

Guido van Rossum wrote:

 Hm, Apple and Microsoft don't seem to think so. They go out of their
 way to implement elaborate visual effects.

Well, that's a different issue -- assuming the visual
effect is something wanted, then the CPU required to
produce it isn't unnecessary.

But there's no excuse for using CPU when the application
truly isn't doing anything other than waiting for
something to happen.

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Greg
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Re: [Python-Dev] Signals+Threads (PyGTK waking up 10x/sec).

[Guido van Rossum]

On Dec 12, 2007 2:42 PM, Greg Ewing [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 But there's no excuse for using CPU when the application
 truly isn't doing anything other than waiting for
 something to happen.

There are tons of situations where polling is quite reasonable as logn
as it involves a sleep.

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Re: [Python-Dev] Bug Day in January?

[Georg Brandl]

A.M. Kuchling schrieb:
 On Fri, Dec 07, 2007 at 10:04:38PM +0100, Georg Brandl wrote:
 there wasn't much response to the bug day proposal, but I still think it's
 a good idea. I'd propose a date in January, when Christmas etc. is over.
 It would also be nice if someone did the organizing who hasn't got a
 daily batch of GHOP tasks to review and commit :)
 
 I agree that a bug day would be a good idea, and am happy to help with
 the organizing.  What needs to be done, once a date has been set and a
 bunch of announcements have been sent out?

Not too much, apart from making sure as many people as possible attend :)

Last time we've communicated over IRC  and the Wiki, perhaps next time
a Google spreadsheet could be used instead of the Wiki, so one would
need to setup IRC logging and the initial spreadsheet.

There are a couple of pages in the Wiki with infos for participants
which must be brought up to date and perhaps moved into the Google doc too.

A neat thing for newcomers is if someone goes through the bugs beforehand
and selects some that are easily tackleable in the time period of the
bug day.

Georg

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