From: Nick Ing-Simmons [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>
> It does not mention that in the book I have - is your source
> either empirical or definitive ?
MSDN - does that count as apocryphal? :-)
>From the documentation of MsgWaitForMultipleObjects()
Parameters:
nCount
Specifies the number of object handles in the array pointed to by pHandles.
The maximum number of object handles is MAXIMUM_WAIT_OBJECTS minus one.
Plus,
\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 :-(
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?
Paul.
