Busy looping when there are no active watchers

[Marc Lehmann]

On Wed, Jul 04, 2012 at 09:37:54PM +0000, doug at hcsw.org wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I've noticed that if there are no active watchers, waiting on a
> condition variable busy loops with AnyEvent (only tried it with
> AnyEvent 7.01 and EV backend):

Yes, when your program deadlocks, this happens with some event loops.

> I'm not saying I think this behaviour is wrong since a program
> where there are no active watchers is probably broken in some
> other way, I'm just wondering why the busy looping happens in
> this case. I kind of thought it would "sleep forever".

With EV, the reason it happens is that EV::loop returns when there are no
active watchers, and AnyEvent just calls it until the condition becomes
true.

> Sorry if I missed this in the documentation.

The reason why it happens is not documented for each event loop, but
AnyEvent::FAQ generally talks about "Why do some backends use a lot of CPU
in "AE::cv->recv"?".

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