[PyKDE] Threads & PyQt 3?

[gvermeul at polycnrs-gre.fr]

> Gerard Vermeulen wrote:
> > 
> > Great Phil,
> > 
> > but I really think that adding the Py_BEGIN_ALLOW_THREADS and
> > Py_END_ALLOW_THREADS to the wrappers may really help to run threads
> > more smoothly, in case that the wrapped functions ask a lot of CPU time
> > or require I/O.
> 
> Currently this is done (via sipReleaseLock() and sipAcquireLock()) for
> calls that handle Qt events (eg. QApplication.exec_loop()). There
> shouldn't be any problem with adding calls to things like
> QFile.readBlock() etc. Or are you suggesting adding them for every
> single Qt call?
> 
I did not realize that these macros were already handled via those
..Lock() functions. I did just a few tests and to my surprise
multithreading worked better than I expected.

Yes, I was thinking to adding them to every Qt call. Of course that
is a naive brute force approach. It should be better to add
a sip directive, allowing thread switching in the Qt calls that
may demand a lot of time.

Gerard


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