On Tue, 08 Jul 2003 16:40:39 -0500, Dan Nelson wrote: > >Threaded applications on x86 usually have much smaller default stack >limits, averaging 64-128k, because all threads must share the same >address space, and a 4MB stack gives you a theoretical limit of only >1024 threads (assuming your kernel uses no memory and your process >allocates no data, just stack :)
Delving deeply into pedantics, the default stack size for a Win32 CreateThread call is 1MB, but you bump into other limits long before you get to 2048 threads (given the 2GB user-mode address space). -- - Tim Roberts, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc. _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/devel
