[PyQt] What happens there's many signals in PyQt?

[Phil Thompson]

On Friday 13 July 2007 3:52 pm, Carlos Scheidegger wrote:
> Hello,
>
> 	I tracked down the issue on our application, and it seems it had to do
> with the amount of connections installed in the entire system. I decided to
> implement a internal feature with QtCore.QObjects so I could use the
> signals/slots systems, and it seems that there is some place in the system
> where there's a linear search throughout the entire list of signals. In
> essence, increasing my total connection count from ~50 to ~4000 made the
> whole program slow down to a crawl in some particular combinations of OS,
> PyQt and Qt. (We run a pretty heterogenous dev environment)
>
> 	To be more specific, the many new signals were all PyQt short-circuit
> signals between classes derived from QtCore.QObject. There were only three
> or four connections coming from each object, but there were about 1000
> objects created this way.
>
> I was wondering if this is Qt or PyQt, and if this is well-known and
> documented anywhere.

Probably PyQt. If you can produce a simple example that demonstrates the 
behaviour then I'll have a look at it.

Phil