Hi, On Thu, 7 Dec 2006, Andreas Ericsson wrote: > 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 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html