I believe the help on threads has changed very little since D4 (and earlier). I suspect the OS has a lot to do with thread performance and the 16 limit sounds very much like a Windows 95 kind of thing. I know thread handling has been improved heaps in windows 2000 +.
Rob Martin Software Engineer phone 03 377 0495 fax 03 377 0496 web www.chreos.com ----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, January 15, 2004 9:39 AM Subject: [DUG] solvethisproblem > Hi Gajo, > > That's an interesting comment about the number of threads, because I have an application that runs 24x7 with between 30 and 50 threads (at the moment), and I haven't noticed any performance issues. In fact, it's even running on an old PII 400MHz machine! > > I think the number of threads vs performance issue really depends on what the software and threads are doing. If you really wanted to go down that path (for anything, not just the current project), I would put more emphasis on your own testing and observations than what might be in the Help files (who knows when that information was last updated?) > > BTW, it would be referring to 16 actively running threads, not necessarily 16 different thread objects. > > Regards, > > Bevan > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- > _______________________________________________ > Delphi mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://ns3.123.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi > _______________________________________________ Delphi mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://ns3.123.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi
