Github user dan-blanchard commented on a diff in the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/storm/pull/602#discussion_r34284915
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@@ -29,6 +30,26 @@
json_encode = lambda x: json.dumps(x)
json_decode = lambda x: json.loads(x)
+# scheduled timer running job at fixed rate (note: GIL!)
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As you note, the GIL is going to be a major problem with this approach. To
the point, that this will not work as intended and you will still have timeout
issues if processing an individual tuple takes too long.
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