Re: [boost] Re: Threads Rewrite?

From: Bronek Kozicki (brok_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-07-28 06:38:10

Bronek Kozicki wrote:
> Roland wrote:
>> This would increase the number of threads seriously, since you can
>> only wait for a very limited number of objects in a call to WaitFor.
>
> Agh ... it took me some time to see your point. Yes, RegisterWaitFor..
> internally uses WaitForMultipleObjects (actally it's little more
> complicated), which is limited to 64 handles on my version of Windows.

however, "new wait threads are created automatically when required."
(http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/dllproc/base/registerwaitforsin
gleobject.asp ) . Thus number of calls to RegisterForWait... function is
not limited by capacity of WaitForMultipleObjects.

B.