On Mon, 6 May 2013 20:17:59 +0200, Erik Janssens <erik.janss...@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 _______________________________________________ PyQt mailing list PyQt@riverbankcomputing.com http://www.riverbankcomputing.com/mailman/listinfo/pyqt
