Threading.Event w/ timeout veeeeeery slow on win32?

[Ville Vainio]

I'm using a Threading.Event object. When I specify a timeout for
wait(), it takes almost 1 second for the thread that is wait()'ing to
wake up when I kick the Event obj with a set(). I know I could get
around this by creating a thread to perform set()'s periodically, but
since this slowness is not mentioned in the documentation I was
wondering whether I have misunderstood something.

I'm using Python 2.1.

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