Re: Event loop

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

Nils Rennebarth <nils ipe uni-stuttgart de> writes:
> In my application I have to save a 1MB image to a file using .png which
> takes a lot of time on that oldish P166. What would you suggest to use for
> saving the image "in the background"?

libpng may support progressive saving. If it does, an idle handler is
easy to support; just feed some fixed small chunk of data into the
saver on every idle. If it doesn't, you are pretty much forced to use
a thread or process unless you write your own PNG encoder. I'll stay
out of the "threads vs. processes" debate. ;-)

Havoc