[PyQt] Signals across threads is slow

[Romain Bignon]

Hello,

In a PyQT program, there is two classes, one derived from QThread, and one in
the main GUI thread.

A slot of the GUI thread's class is connected to a QThread signal, and it
seems that this is very slow to emit signal and/or call slot. This result
happens with an empty slot method too.

The hotshot profiler confirms that, the main thread is in the empty slot 70% of
time (and is called only 16 times).

class UDPStreamingThread(QThread):

    def __init__(self):
        QThread.__init__(self)

    def run(self):
        while 1:
            # get some data from socket
            self.emit(SIGNAL('messageReceived'), data)

class UDPStreamingReceiver(QObject):
            
    def __init__(self, client):

        QObject.__init__(self)
        self.thread = UDPStreamingThread()

        self.connect(self.thread, SIGNAL('messageReceived'), self.messageReceived)

    def messageReceived(self, data):
        return

Regards,

-- 
Romain Bignon -- http://romain.peerfuse.org

http://peerfuse.org
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