From: Nobuyoshi Nakada <nobu@...>
Date: 2009-12-05T08:37:15+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:27048] Re: Ruby causes nearly as much cpu wakeups as firefox

Hi,

At Fri, 4 Dec 2009 22:48:52 +0900,
Christoph Kappel wrote in [ruby-core:27036]:
> my questions is what does ruby when it's supposed to do nothing? Hopefully someone can enlighten me.

A timer thread wakes up per 10 milliseconds, for thread
switching and signal handling.

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Nobu Nakada