Re: perl IS an event loop (was Re: Speaking of signals...)

[Nick Ing-Simmons]

Simon Cozens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>On Fri, Jan 05, 2001 at 11:42:32PM -0500, Uri Guttman wrote:
>>   SC> 5x slowdown. 
>> 
>> not if you just check a flag in the main loop. you only check the event
>> system if you have pending events or signals, etc. the key is not
>> checking all events on each pass thru the loop. 
>
>Which is exactly what Chip did in his safe-signals patch. 33% slowdown.

I don't believe it - can we add a stub test and bench mark it?

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