One of my favorite catch-phrases in the Twisted community is:

> "Spawn a thread, write 'til you block!"

Given that one may frequently be interacting with async-hostile frameworks from within Twisted, this is usually an expression of exasperation; "oh well, I guess I'm going to do this dumb thing since I have no better options".

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The irony is that this phrase does *not* come from anyone within the Twisted community.  It's a quote from **Keith Zaback**, who casts a [very light footprint](http://confusatron.org) on the interwebs.

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The origin of the quote was, as I dimly recall, a criticism of a playstation emulator's approach to audio playback scheduling.

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To quote Keith:

> “… it was a criticism about the sound synchronization in a Playstation emulator.  I would have expected to find some buffering system implemented in the audio code, but instead it was only limited by how often the call to write(/dev/dsp) returned. That had the effect of delaying all your sound by the size of the kernel audio buffer.”