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It could cause long waits if he's calling it in a while 1: busyloop. If so, the consumer would not only be reducing the producer's timeslice, but would also spend a lot of time holding the Queue's lock, potentially livelocking the producer. (This is more likely if he has multiple consumer threads.)

Brian
– Brian

2008-10-01 09:33:07 +00:00
Commented Oct 1, 2008 at 9:33
Good point Brian. I got the impression that eliben wasn't calling this all that frequenctly, but I could be wrong - eliben?

Jon Cage
– Jon Cage

2008-10-01 10:04:15 +00:00
Commented Oct 1, 2008 at 10:04
Oops, you're right - I missed the part about calling it in an idle event. That wouldn't be enough to cause such problems.

Brian
– Brian

2008-10-01 12:06:29 +00:00
Commented Oct 1, 2008 at 12:06

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