Hi,

On Thu, 7 Dec 2006, Andreas Ericsson wrote:

quoted text
> Shawn Pearce wrote:
> > 
> > Perhaps there is some fast IPC API supported by Qt that you could use 
> > to run the revision listing outside of the main UI process, to 
> > eliminate the bottlenecks you are seeing and remove the problems noted 
> > above?  One that doesn't involve reading from a pipe I mean...
> > 
> 
> Why not just fork() + exec() and read from the filedescriptor? You can 
> up the output buffer of the forked program to something suitable, which 
> means the OS will cache it for you until you copy it to a buffer in qgit 
> (i.e., read from the descriptor).

Could somebody remind me why different processes are needed? I thought 
that the revision machinery should be used directly, by linking to 
libgit.a...

Ciao,
Dscho

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