Numeric GUI bottleneck
- by Physic
Hi all,
I've made a GUI to set up and start a numerical integrator using PyQT4, Wing, QT, and Python 2.6.6, on my Mac. The thing is, when I run the integrator form the GUI, it takes very many times longer than when I crudely run the integrator from the command line.
As an example, a 1000 year integration took 98 seconds on the command line and ~570 seconds from the GUI.
In the GUI, the integration runs from a thread and then returns. It uses a a queue to communicate back to the GUI.
Does anyone have any ideas as to where the bottleneck is? I suspect that others may be experiencing something like this just on a smaller scale.
t = threading.Thread( target=self.threadsafe_start_thread, args=( self.queue, self.selected ) )
t.start()
Thanks!