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minus-squareo11c@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·edit-21 year agoIt’s worth noting that the http.server module is based on socketserver.BaseServer.serve_forever, which is a atrocious. It uses a busy loop with a delay, so it both burns CPU and is unresponsive. (The fact that Python has had broken signal handling since 3.5 also hurts - EINTR should never be ignored from blocking calls)
It’s worth noting that the
http.servermodule is based onsocketserver.BaseServer.serve_forever, which is a atrocious.It uses a busy loop with a delay, so it both burns CPU and is unresponsive.
(The fact that Python has had broken signal handling since 3.5 also hurts - EINTR should never be ignored from blocking calls)