[Pythonmac-SIG] Carbon events

[Jack Jansen]

> Jack Jansen wrote:
> 
> > [thinking out loud] So the reason MacPython uses so many cycles on OSX is 
> > probably because the lowlevel I/O wait is a tight loop that calls WNE with a 
> > small timeout and then checks a flag to see whether an async I/O completion 
> > routine was called while in WNE. So the real problem is that we use small 
> > timeouts to WNE, if we could use large timeouts there and have the I/O 
> > completion routine somehow wake up WNE that would help a lot....
> 
> [Btw. is this about the interpreter, the IDE, or both?]

The interpreter, the IDE is a lot better, because when idling waiting for the 
user to do something it isn't sitting the the lowlevel I/O wait loop.
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