[Twisted-Python] Re: Twisted and the Posh Module

[Ken Kinder]

Itamar Shtull-Trauring wrote:

>On Mon, 2005-03-14 at 14:27 -0800, Ed Suominen wrote:
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>>Ah, so *that* is why the SANE GUI frontend I'm writing [1] pauses 
>>scanning and window events when it's using PIL to generate a thumbnail 
>>of the last page scanned, despite my use of deferToThread. 
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>Arguably not releasing the GIL in C code is a bug, and someone should
>probably report it.
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They are aware of it, and in the alpha version of PIL, *some* operations 
no longer acquire the GIL, but many still do.

-Ken