Queue limitations?

[Fredrik Lundh]

mateom at gmail.com wrote:

> > the queue holds references to the images, not the images themselves,
> > so the size should be completely irrelevant.I use one instance of imageQueue.
>
> hmmm.. true. And it also fails when I use PIL Image objects instead of
> arrays. Any idea why compressing the string helps?

compression and decompression takes time.  sounds like you have a timing
problem, and it's probably not in the imageQueue thread.  adding a couple
of print statements to strategic locations (e.g push image, pop image, write
image to disk using this filename, etc) might help you sort this one out.

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