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.
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