[Python-Dev] Non-blocking (asynchronous) timer without thread? (original) (raw)

Evgeniy Khramtsov xramtsov at gmail.com
Sat Dec 23 07:53:25 CET 2006

Mike Klaas пишет:

I'm not sure how having python execute code at an arbitrary time would reduce race conditions and/or deadlocks. And if you want to make it safe by executing code that shares no variables or resources, then it is no less safe to use threads, due to the GIL. Ok. And what about a huge thread overhead? Just try to start 10-50k threading timers :)

If you can write you application in an event-driven way, Twisted might be able to do what you are looking for.

I don't like an idea of Twisted: you want the banana, but get the whole gorilla as well :)

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