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Re: [Qemu-devel] RFC: running the user interface in a thread ...
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Eric Blake |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] RFC: running the user interface in a thread ... |
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Mon, 18 Jan 2016 13:34:49 -0700 |
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On 01/18/2016 02:54 AM, Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> I'm starting to investigate if and how we can move the user interface
> code into its own thread instead of running it in the iothread and
> therefore avoid blocking the guest in case some UI actions take a little
> longer.
That, and so the UI can use localization without corrupting other
threads that MUST use the C locale (QMP parsing/output of floating point
is particularly important to get right with '.' instead of ',' for a
decimal separator).
>
> Suggestions how to tackle that?
Sadly, I don't have good suggestions here, as I've never done much in
the way of UI coding.
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Eric Blake eblake redhat com +1-919-301-3266
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Re: [Qemu-devel] RFC: running the user interface in a thread ..., Kevin Wolf, 2016/01/19