Re: [Twisted-Python] Speed of rendering?

On Wed, Feb 27, 2013, at 18:26, Glyph wrote:
> 
> On Feb 27, 2013, at 3:55 AM, Peter Westlake <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> 
> > It only makes sense to use ones that have already fired, i.e. defer.succeed(...). 
> 
> The problem with only testing synchronously-fired Deferreds is that there
> are implementation shortcuts possible there, which would allow us to
> cheat the benchmark.  Granted, it doesn't make sense to do much more work
> than returning to the reactor - or perhaps not even the reactor, perhaps
> just a tight outer control loop that does nothing but immediately fire
> all the Deferreds it knows about when it's returned to - but a
> not-fired-at-the-time-of-rendering Deferred is a potentially important
> code path.

Fair enough - I'll see what I can do.

Peter.