Thanks again for the info. On Wed, Aug 10, 2022 at 9:31 PM Peter J. Holzer <hjp-pyt...@hjp.at> wrote:
> On 2022-08-10 14:19:37 -0400, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote: > > On Wed, 10 Aug 2022 19:33:04 +0200, "Dieter Maurer" <die...@handshake.de > > > > declaimed the following: > > >Schachner, Joseph (US) wrote at 2022-8-9 17:04 +0000: > > >>Why would this application *require* parallel programming? This > > >>could be done in one, single thread program. Call time to get time > > >>and save it as start_time. Keep a count of the number of 6 hour > > >>intervals, initialize it to 0. > [...] > > Though if I read this correctly, a long running action /will/ > > delay others -- which could mean the (FFT) process could block > > collecting new 1-second readings while it is active. > > Certainly, but does it matter? Data is received from some network > connection and network connections often involve quite a bit of > buffering. If the consumer is blocked for 3 or 4 or maybe even 20 > seconds, the producer might not even notice. (This of course depends > very much on the details which we know nothing about.) > > hp > > -- > _ | Peter J. Holzer | Story must make more sense than reality. > |_|_) | | > | | | h...@hjp.at | -- Charles Stross, "Creative writing > __/ | http://www.hjp.at/ | challenge!" > -- > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list > -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
