Guilherme Polo <ggp...@gmail.com> added the comment: In theory at least, it is valid. I have done something similar in another tcl <-> python bridge that I did for fun, but didn't achieve good results in the end. From what I remember, creating a timer handler instead of using a 20ms sleep complicates the releasing and acquiring the GIL since you have to create a timer handler to fire now and release the GIL, then schedule another to fire before any other event fires up and acquire the GIL, and we would be creating timer handlers all the time. It would have been better if I left this code in another branch of that another bridge in order to compare the performance, but I'm really unsure if this is going to give the improvement that OP is expecting.
Something that I would find interesting to see implemented is a replacement of the Tcl Notifier, which I would expect to give us the expected improvement here. Although Tcl is built to allow replacing its notifier, it is also much more complex to do than doing what the OP is requesting. Now, in practice I would call this issue invalid (rejected actually). There is no code/interest after almost 6 years, closing this now. ---------- nosy: +gpolo resolution: -> rejected status: open -> closed _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue780602> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
