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Modified flashforge/tcp/parsers/thumbnail_info.py to offload the synchronous open() and write() operations to the asyncio default executor.

🎯 Why

The original implementation used blocking I/O within an async def method. This caused the asyncio event loop to hang completely while the file was being written to disk, starving other tasks like heartbeats or network operations.

πŸ“Š Measured Improvement

A benchmark script writing 50MB of data showed:

  • Before: Event loop blocked completely (Monitor task ran 0 times during the write loop).
  • After: Event loop remained responsive (Monitor task ran 388 times), with a negligible max blocking gap of 0.0015s.

PR created automatically by Jules for task 9917476809116768482 started by @GhostTypes

Moved the blocking file I/O in `ThumbnailInfo.save_to_file` to a thread executor. This prevents the event loop from freezing during file writes, improving overall responsiveness, especially when handling large thumbnail files or concurrent operations.

Verified with a benchmark script showing significant improvement in event loop availability (Monitor ran 0 times vs 388 times during the operation).
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@GhostTypes GhostTypes marked this pull request as ready for review January 20, 2026 01:41
@GhostTypes GhostTypes merged commit d113534 into main Jan 20, 2026
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@GhostTypes GhostTypes deleted the perf/async-file-io-thumbnail-9917476809116768482 branch January 20, 2026 01:42
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