[PyQt] ANN: PyQt5 Snapshots Available

[Phil Thompson]

On Mon, 6 May 2013 20:17:59 +0200, Erik Janssens
<Erik.Janssens at conceptive.be> wrote:
> Hello Phil,
> 
> could you possibly give some explanations for
> 
> "The GIL is only released when it is known to be needed.  PyQt4 always
> released the GIL when calling Qt."

The GIL only needs to be released if the Qt call blocks (eg. when entering
an event loop, or reading from storage). The fact that PyQt4 always
releases it is a performance penalty.

Phil