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Python Insider: Of polling, futures and parallel execution

https://blog.python.org/2011/03/of-polling-futures-and-parallel.html

“One of the big concerns in modern computing is saving power. It matters a lot in portable devices (laptops, tablets, handhelds). Your modern CPU is able to enter a various number of low-power states when it is idle. The longer it stays idle, the deeper the low-power state, and the lower the energy...” (from the page’s text)

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