[julia-users] Slowness when trying to redirect the standard output

[STAR0SS]

I'm trying redirect the standard output into another variable, here a 
GtkTextBuffer, but it's pretty slow for
a reason I don't understand. I don't fully understand tasks so maybe 
there's a scope or compilation problem, I don't know. 

Using @time is particularly bad for some reason, it take about two second 
to complete.

Inserting into a buffer is fast by the way, even if it's a global variable. 
Any hints?


using Gtk


function redirect()

    buffer = @GtkTextBuffer()

    function print_std_out(rd::Base.PipeEndpoint,buffer::GtkTextBuffer)
        response = readavailable(rd)
        if !isempty(response)
            insert!(buffer,bytestring(response))
        end
    end

    stdout_task = @schedule begin
        rd, wr = redirect_stdout()
        while(true)
            print_std_out(rd,buffer)
        end
    end

end

redirect()

@time 1