Chuck Esterbrook wrote:
I'm working strictly off memory here, but I thought the point of the
implementation was that it used a special library (when available)
that eliminated the need for polling. Instead, the op sys would notify
the appserver process when a file changed.
Does that sound familiar?
I'm not sure that was actually the original intent, but yes, that is an
advantage. OTOH, you could look at sys.modules.keys() once a second to
test for new files without any substantial overhead.
Polling has the well known disadvantages of (1) the gap between polls
(too big? too small? never just right), (2) wasted effort checking for
something repeatedly and in this case, (3) the increased amount of
time required per poll as your app grows larger and uses more modules.
Although, I don't see why we couldn't have an option to use one
technique vs. another. We could even default it to polling sys.modules
since that seems less likely to disturb other Python packages like
Cheetah.
Especially since most people don't have the non-polling libraries
installed (e.g., famd), this would be safer all around.
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