Hi, Here are more ideas:
- Do not mix threads with async methods, sometimes GUI is fluid with async and threads are not necessary. Maybe both concepts are interesting for your research. - Pantheon-files has parallelizing problems with thumbnails and top navigation bar animations (I am not sure if this is a clutter problem), but it can be improved. - (As far as I know) Granite library lacks functions to easily create threads or async methods, for example to load images/textures for clutter without blocking animations. - I don't know how advanced is the work of "search" and "indexing" tools for Isis, but both will need a lot of parallelization optimizations to maintain Luna's performance. Albert On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 11:58 AM, David Gomes <[email protected]>wrote: > Hi there, > > A mate and I worked on this search app together: > > https://github.com/gangsterveggies/ancel-search-tool > > It's not an official elementary app but it follows the elementary HIG and > uses Vala/GTK3/Granite like elementary apps do. > > We wanted to make the Search asynchronous and have one thread for the > search and one thread for the GUI. We stopped working on it, but if you > want to contribute with something like that (which I believe is somewhat > related to parallelizing) feel free to, I'm Munchor on #elementary-dev if > you need any help. > > Of course, I might be very wrong and this has nothing to do with > parallelizing. > > ~David > > On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 5:13 AM, Lochlan Bunn <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hello everyone, >> >> For the next few months I am to base a uni project on parallelizing an >> existing program (or part of). I'd like to use this chance to contribute >> *something* for the elementary project. >> >> So, are there an elementary/community app maintainers that would know of >> some task that would benefit from being parallel? It would be better if the >> kind of task had significant improvement potential. If you're not sure >> about the potential, I would still be interesting in being contacted. >> >> Past reading documentation for vala, I'm not at all experienced in using >> the language. But any memory model and parallelization specific problems I >> find, I could approach the vala community. If you're suggestion is using C >> and pthreads, then that could actually be better for both this projects >> requirements and depth of contributed performance gain. >> >> Thanks for reading. I hope to hear back from some people! >> >> -- >> Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~elementary-dev-community >> Post to : [email protected] >> Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~elementary-dev-community >> More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >> >> > > -- > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~elementary-dev-community > Post to : [email protected] > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~elementary-dev-community > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > >
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