Re: [Vnc2swf-users] Project Future

[Yusuke S. <yu...@cs...>]

On Thu, 16 Apr 2009 19:26:13 -0400, Reid Ellis <ra...@tn...> wrote:
> Well as mentioned before, we should be recording some sort of  
> compressed (gzip?) vnc stream, and then converting the data  
> afterwards. Actually, we could spawn a second thread that just  
> converts the data stream to whatever format the user has selected. In  
> this day of multi-core CPUs, this surely makes sense.
> 
> Reid

I don't agree. It might improve the overall response time, but it
does not address the CPU hogging issue, because whether encoding
is handled in a separate thread or not it still eats a lot of CPU
time. Also, I feel that using multiple threads will lead a rather
tricky coding technique, which I hope to avoid as much as possible.

The point I was trying to make is that encoding can be done
*cheaper* if we use C. Otherwise, we can anyway spend a certain
amount of CPU in exchange for the pure-Python, cross-platform world.

So the real question here should be whether we should abandon
the cross platformness for efficiency or not. I'm not decided.
It depends on what other people are using and how they think about
the efficiency.

Yusuke