[Interest] How to speed-up chameleons

[igor.mironchik at gmail.com]

Hi.

First chameleon waits for another, i.e. he doing nothing while another will not come to the meeting place. And here semaphore is not necessary.

Most slow place is QEventDispatcherWin32::processEvents()

From: Romain Beaumont 
Sent: Wednesday, June 11, 2014 7:54 PM
To: Igor Mironchik 
Cc: interest at qt-project.org 
Subject: Re: [Interest] How to speed-up chameleons

"first chameleon should wait a second;" this sound like semaphore to me, but I don't know this chameleon problem. 
What part of Qt is causing it to be slow ? QThread ? the signal/slot ? 



2014-06-11 18:51 GMT+02:00 <igor.mironchik at gmail.com>:

  Hi.

  What do you suggest?

  From: Romain Beaumont 
  Sent: Wednesday, June 11, 2014 5:12 PM
  To: Keith Gardner 
  Cc: igor.mironchik at gmail.com ; interest at qt-project.org 
  Subject: Re: [Interest] How to speed-up chameleons

  Hi, 
  Why do you need to use Qt signals/slots ?
  Isn't there something more appropriate to this task ?



  2014-06-11 15:36 GMT+02:00 Keith Gardner <kreios4004 at gmail.com>:

      I have one question to you. Why new syntax of QObject::connect() improve performance for a 5%.

      I mean that if in code change

      connect( sender, SIGNAL( signal() ), receiver, SLOT( slot() ) );

      to

      connect( sender, &Sender::signal, receiver, &Receiver::slot );

      then code works faster... Why? May be somebody know the answer, I don’t want to read Qt’s code for the answer on this question.

    I would guess would be that the first connect is performing a string lookup and validating the arguments at run time.  SIGNAL and SLOT are taking the macro parameters and turning them into character arrays.

    The second connect is working with function pointers which allows for the compiler validate their existence and ensure that the arguments are compatible at compile time instead of run time.

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