Re: Win32 port survey results
[email protected] (Joshua N Pritikin)
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On Mon, Mar 27, 2000 at 03:52:38PM +0100, [email protected] wrote: > \VisualStudio\VC98\Include\WINNT.H:#define MAXIMUM_WAIT_OBJECTS 64 // > Maximum number of wait objects > > The book I first saw this in said 32 - 64 is better, but still a hard > limit... > > From: Joshua > > What does Microsoft recommend? Is the use of threads manditory? > > AFAIK, Microsoft don't recommend anything. I presume the normal usage would > involve threads, but even then, I'm not sure how I would write things which > were both generic and scalable :-( Oh! > As I don't use Event in anger, could I ask the assembled company - how much > use would an implementation which was limited by this be in practice? Well, 32 handles is probably enough for many simple scripts and many applications. Servers are a different story. -- "Never ascribe to malice that which can be explained by stupidity." via, but not speaking for Deutsche Bank