In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Carl Banks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Apr 20, 10:57 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Aahz) wrote: >> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, >> Carl Banks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>>On Apr 17, 3:37 am, Jonathan Gardner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>>wrote: >>>> >>>> Using 100% of the CPU is a bug, not a feature. >>> >>>No it isn't. That idea is borne of the narrowmindedness of people who >>>write server-like network apps. What's true for web servers isn't >>>true for every application. >> >> Only when you have only one application running on a machine. > >Needless pedantry. > >"Using 100% of the CPU time a OS allow a process to have is not >necessarily a bug." Happy?
Not really; my comment is about the same level of pedantry as yours. Jonathan's comment was clearly in the context of inappropriate CPU usage (e.g. spin-polling). Obviously, there are cases where hammering on the CPU for doing a complex calculation may be appropriate, but in those cases, you will want to ensure that your application gets as much CPU as possible by removing all unnecessary CPU usage by other apps. -- Aahz ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <*> http://www.pythoncraft.com/ Why is this newsgroup different from all other newsgroups? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
