[Twisted-Python] Gtk2Reactor: what are the reasons for avoiding GLib functions?

[Andrew Bennetts]

Jason Heeris wrote:
[…]
> "glib handles timeouts much less efficiently than any of the existing
> Twisted reactors. Letting glib take care of these would probably make
> the glib-based reactors unusable for applications with many timeouts."
> 
> Is there a benchmark or piece of code somewhere that verifies this (or
> at least gives some sort of demonstration of "unuseable")?

…and if someone does have such a benchmark, it'd be great to add it to
<http://speed.twistedmatrix.com/> :)

-Andrew.