Only start tracing worker thread on first span/trace #804
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| self._worker_thread = threading.Thread(target=self._run, daemon=True) | ||
| self._worker_thread.start() | ||
| # We lazily start the background worker thread the first time a span/trace is queued. | ||
| self._worker_thread: threading.Thread | None = None |
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Why not start a task + asyncio q, then you don't have an extra thread to worry about and you can start the task unconditionally
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Hmm I was thinking:
- small overhead in cases where there are no traces (the unconditional task would still be scheduled every poll_interval seconds, even though it doesnt have work)
- It wouldn't work super well in totally sync contexts
- cleaning up the asyncio task is kinda annoying imo
lmk if you feel like I should change, happy to.
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Closes openai#796. Shouldn't start a busy waiting thread if there aren't any traces. Test plan ``` import threading assert threading.active_count() == 1 import agents assert threading.active_count() == 1 ```
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Closes #796. Shouldn't start a busy waiting thread if there aren't any traces.
Test plan