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
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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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
