This is more out of theoretical curiosity than an actual problem I am having.
Say you want to run some code at a regular interval, what are the pros and cons of using a Timer vs using a thread + time.sleep in terms of CPU consumption? The two below approaches do the same. I am aware that the Thread approach is not exactly one second interval, but rather adds a delay after each execution, which can matter if the task_function operation takes a long time. I am also aware that there are many other ways to solve this problem, but lets focus on the threading package.
Timer approach
def task_function(): print(time.time()) def task(): task_function() threading.Timer(1,task).start() task() Thread approach
def task_function(): while True: print(time.time()) time.sleep(1) threading.Thread(target=task_function).start() I read somewhere that starting a thread is quite resource intensive. So I wonder that if you had some code you wanted to run every 0.1 seconds, would the Timer approach not be sub-optimal since a new thread has to be started so often?
