In a message of Wed, 09 Sep 2015 20:25:06 +0100, Alan Gauld writes: >On 09/09/15 19:20, Laura Creighton wrote: >If you are working on a small platform - think mobile device - and it has >a single channel bus to the storage area then one of the worst things >you can do is write lots of small chunks of data to it. The overhead >(in hardware) of opening and locking the bus is almost as much as >the data transit time and so can choke the bus for a significant amount >of time (I'm talking milliseconds here but in real-time that's significant).
But if I shoot you with my laser cannon, I want you to get the message that you are dead _now_ and not when some buffer fills up ... Laura _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
