[OLPC-devel] pygtk performance issue

[Jonathan Corbet]

Richard Smith <smithbone at gmail.com> wrote:

> > one might argue that any app that opens 700 files on startup is not
> > simple :-)
> 
> Dave Jones agrees.
> 
> http://lwn.net/Articles/192214/

Along those lines, it's worth noting that pygtk suffers from the "wake
up every 100ms and do nothing" disease:

	http://lwn.net/Articles/198217/

People are trying to address it, which is a good thing - a bunch of
pygtk apps spinning in their event loops won't be good for power
consumption.

jon