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On Wed, 9 Apr 2014 23:47:04 +1000, Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com>
declaimed the following:

>won't block. You might think "Duh, how can printing to the screen
>block?!?", but if your program's output is being piped into something
>else, it most certainly can :) If that were writing to a remote

	Heck, even if it isn't blocking per se, it may still be enough to slow
down the whole system (over the past year I've had to characterize through
put on some systems -- and the console logging of "exceptions"* slowed the
overall data rate significantly)


* The unit providers' idea of "exception to be logged" just happened to be
something our intended application considered normal; hence our test data
produced LOTS of "exceptions".
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