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Hand Tracking for Mouse Input (2023)

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220 points wonger_ | 2 comments | 19 Nov 24 17:18 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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aranelsurion ◴[19 Nov 24 18:38 UTC] No.42186730[source]▶
> Python version is super laggy, something to do with OpenCV

Most probably I'm wrong, but I wonder if it has anything to do with all the text being written to stdout. In the odd chance that it happens on the same thread, it might be blocking.

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1. ikanreed ◴[19 Nov 24 18:46 UTC] No.42186797[source]▶
Could it then be resolved by using the no-gil version of python they just released?
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2. mananaysiempre ◴[19 Nov 24 18:59 UTC] No.42186900[source]▶
I’m not sure what your reasoning is, but note that blocking I/O including print() releases the GIL. (So your seemingly innocent debugging print can be extremely not harmless under the wrong circumstances.)