If you use the threads approach and want to make your app portable to other platforms, you should use the g_thread library. pthreads will only work under Linux. The biggest problem of using threads is that the secondary threads must not try to directly update the GUI, unless you use g_threads_enter/leave, but that (in my limited experience) doesn't always seem to help (I've seen random crashes, with messages about asynchronous X messages). You can use a GAsyncQueue to pass data between the thread and an idle handler which does the actual GUI updates (I've posted about this a while back). I suppose one advantage of using threads to do the calculation (as opposed to an idle callback) is that the app will run smoother on a dual core/dual processor machine.
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