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On 10/15/2012 9:40 PM, Adrian Chadd wrote:
> Gah, I think there's quite a lot of push back on this.
>
> Maxim, would you please consider reverting this patch? Can we have a
> discussion on the best way to do this, taking various things like
> embedded and power-saving systems into effect?

I am working on improved version, so that in the absence of 
@every_second it would revert to the previous behavior. Even though I 
seriously doubt that few thousand additional CPU cycles every second 
would make any measurable differences in any practical application.

-Maxim