Ulrich Windl wrote:
"A. Schulze" sca@andreasschulze.de schrieb am 17.12.2018 um 22:19 in
Nachricht 77e04ce8-0362-c873-c751-98bc9ea58c73@andreasschulze.de:
Am 16.12.18 um 23:32 schrieb Howard Chu:
>>> ./data/regressions/its8752/its8752 failed (exit 1)
I believe this is simply due to too short a sleep between steps. It happens
quite
often on slower machines.
are there plans to to relax the timings or should I simple ignore that fail? "it may happen that 'make its' pass on other computers" don't really satisfy me :-)
When waiting for an event (other than passing of time) sleep is always the wrong solution
False.
(iven if seemingly industry-standard work-around for all kinds of bugs): It's either too long, wasting time, or too short, failing to fulfill ist purpose.
sleep is used because it is a low cost operation on the computer. Anything more active than that will use more system resources, which are obviously already scarce on a slower system. i.e., active polling on a slow machine will only make things slower.