[PyKDE] Re: QDrag.start, Py_BEGIN_ALLOW_THREADS

Phil Thompson phil at riverbankcomputing.co.uk
Thu May 18 23:24:21 BST 2006


On Thursday 18 May 2006 8:34 pm, Patrick Stinson wrote:
> Rarely is staring at a screen all night a fruitful endeavour, but last
> night was an exception. I Recalled something about always releasing
> the GIL in sip-3, and found the -g command line option for sip 4. I
> added it to qt_sip_args and it worked.
>
> What comments do you have on PyQt4's configure.py and extra sip
> options like this one, and on the performance hit gui apps may take
> from adding this option?

What we need to do is identify the particular methods that need to release the 
GIL.

Phil




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