Re: [PyOpenGL-Devel] Using PyOpenGL in threaded programs

[Ian M. <geo...@gm...>]

2012/3/12 Miguel Pérez <wis...@gm...>

> Any news on bug 2965754? (
> http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=2965754&group_id=5988&atid=105988)
>
> I'm writing an image viewer that was supposed to preload images in the
> background. However, it'll crash if I attempt to load images in one thread
> and show them in another thread once it has been successfully loaded. I
> verified I can use any number of threads, and PyOpenGL can be used from any
> thread, but it doesn't seem to be able to be called from different threads.
> In other words, the thread that loads textures must be the thread that uses
> them, and the thread that unloads them. There's an example of what I'm
> saying attached to said bug. Am I doing something wrong?
>
> Thanks
>
FYI, multithreading probably won't improve performance in Python due to the
GIL . . .