[PyQt] QImage and the GIL

[Jason H]

The GIL is not in effect when you are in C++ code. If you are in QImage::scale, then you aren't experiencing GIL.


> Sent: Thursday, March 12, 2015 at 1:24 PM
> From: "Martin Altmayer" <martin.altmayer at web.de>
> To: pyqt at riverbankcomputing.com
> Subject: [PyQt] QImage and the GIL
>
> Hello,
> 
> I use a separate thread to open and scale a large set of images. 
> Unfortunately, with PyQt5 the main thread blocks while an image is 
> loaded (it did work in PyQt4). I believe that the reason is that the 
> QImage-constructor and QImage.scale do not release the GIL. Wouldn't it 
> be better if they did?
> 
> Thanks,
> Martin
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