[GSoC] Integrating LO with GNOME - WR#8

[Pranav Kant]

Hi Tomaz,

On Mon, Jul 20, 2015 at 4:14 PM, Tomaž Vajngerl <quikee at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Mon, Jul 20, 2015 at 7:02 PM, Pranav Kant <pranav913 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> I am making use of thread pool, but this pool consists of only single
>>> thread. All the LOK calls will be queued and can reuse this thread,
>>> hence saving me the time that it would take to create a new thread
>>> (expensive process) for each LOK call.
>>>
>>> This was the reason behind making use of thread pool. I had no
>>> intention of using more than one thread for LOK calls.
>
> You can create only one thread on start and put the processing of
> async queue in a loop there:
>
> while (message = async_queue.pop())
> {
> ...process message...
> }
>
> from other thread just push the messages that you want to process in
> the other thread into the queue (btw. this is what is done in Android
> implementation).
>
> The queue will block if you "pop" and there are no messages in th
> queue - which means the thread will sleep until a new message arrives.
>
> Look at: https://developer.gnome.org/glib/stable/glib-Asynchronous-Queues.html

Yeah, we can use this too.

>
> As you can see the thread pool uses it also - but using thread pool
> with only one thread is kind of a hack to me, but it works too..
>

Yeah, it works. I saw it in some of the gnome modules also, for
example, gnome-photos.
I don't know, but it looks easier to me, to implement and to read. I
will research more over this, and see what we can do.


-- 
Regards,
Pranav Kant
http://pranavk.me