On Fri, Dec 20, 2013 at 2:32 AM, Wolfgang Keller <felip...@gmx.net> wrote: > With Windows it *is* "normal". An experienced software developer > once even explained the reason to me. When a single process on Windows > does I/O, then the system essentially falls back to "single tasking". > Or (non-)"cooperative multitasking" at best, depending on how > dissocial the developer of that process is.
What?! I've supported Windows for quite a few years now (ever since I stopped being OS/2-exclusive (and will do until I can be Linux-exclusive... too many people use it for me to drop it). There is nothing cooperative or single-threaded about Windows multitasking around I/O. I don't disagree that it absolutely sucks compared to Linux (even OS/2 from the 1990s beats today's Windows in a few areas), but not that one. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
