socket.recvfrom() & sendto()

Fredrik Lundh fredrik at pythonware.com
Wed May 9 10:53:31 EDT 2001


Grant Edwards wrote:
>
> >It is never "stalled" at a select(); asyncore uses non-blocking
> >sockets.  select() returns immediately with lists of those sockets
> >which are ready to write and those sockets which are ready to read.
>
> So it's in a busy-wait loop burning CPU time when there's
> nothing to do?  That's just plain evil...

what makes you think any operating system would implement
select in that way?

Cheers /F





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