GezaRegards,So it's single threaded, what a pity. The long running operation is IO and I already refactored my code to use async functions of GIO. I used Promise objects to handle the IO operations from _javascript_. The problem is that I need to wait for all IO calls to be completed before I can process the output and I done it with Promise.all() which waits for all Promises to be fulfilled. But that makes the code synchronous again. I could chain the IO calls, but that would require more refactoring.Hi Philip,Thanks for the quick response.
<philip chimento gmail com> ezt írta (időpont: 2017. ápr. 27., Cs, 2:41):On Wed, Apr 26, 2017, 15:08 Géza Búza <bghome gmail com> wrote:Hi everybody,
I run into an issue while developing an extension for Gnome Shell.
Long running _javascript_ code can make the whole Gnome Shell unresponsive for a second. Since I cannot reduce the execution time of the long running code, I want to move it out of the main loop's thread to a new one to make the UI update independent. I found that the best way would be to create a GTask to run my synchronous JS code asynchronously.Hi Geza,GJS is single-threaded; you can't run JS code from a separate thread. GTask, as you have noticed, is not usable from GJS and this is one of the reasons why.However, if your long-running operation is I/O, then you can simply use Gio's asynchronous operations and not worry about blocking the UI. Effectively Gio will decide whether to run the C code in a thread or not.If it is a long-running calculation or something like that, then you will have to iterate the main loop yourself often enough during the calculation so that the UI doesn't block.Regards,Philip C--Üdvözlettel,Búza Géza