Re: method timeouts vs systemd activation and slow systems

On Thursday, 2 March 2023 07:15:23 PST Colin Walters wrote:
> A while ago now my role switched from working on the Linux desktop to
> working on Linux servers, and since then I've discovered that servers are a
> bit more of a wild world.

Welcome to the club.

We spend a lot of time making the base runtime as fast as possible so the 
higher layers write everything in interpreted languages and have shell scripts 
doing "sleep 1s; poll something".

Well, every cycle saved counts.