Performance of scene(QGraphicsScene) with update();

[wysota]

I'm suprised the application doesn't crash since you are accessing QObjects across threads.

Anyway, if you need such an arbitrary update then most likely you have implemented something incorrectly in your scene. A change to the scene should cause it to update automatically and not using a timer of any sort. It's likely you don't call update() on some item when it changes.

[mukunda]

I'm suprised the application doesn't crash since you are accessing QObjects across threads.

Anyway, if you need such an arbitrary update then most likely you have implemented something incorrectly in your scene. A change to the scene should cause it to update automatically and not using a timer of any sort. It's likely you don't call update() on some item when it changes.

I've the application like data will be coming from a device continously by which the items in the scene should be shown with color like digital values(green or red) and running values on the scene.so i've to update the scene for every 20ms.

[wysota]

I've the application like data will be coming from a device continously

So when the data comes, process it and as part of processing call update() on any item that is changed by the data.

by which the items in the scene should be shown with color like digital values(green or red) and running values on the scene.so i've to update the scene for every 20ms.

Updating every 20ms yields little sense. You won't be able to notice such frequent updates (50Hz), you'll just be wasting processing cycles. Data processing should also be a result of receiving a notification that there is something to be processed, not upon a timer timeout (unless you have no other choice but then I'd reduce the frequency to around 10Hz max).