Re[2]: [boost] Re: Threads Rewrite?

From: Roland (roland.schwarz_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-07-28 07:22:25

On Wed, 28 Jul 2004 13:38:10 +0200 Bronek Kozicki <brok_at_[hidden]> wrote:

> 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.
> 

Unfortunately that still does not account for the requirement to call the TlsFree
in the context of the thread.

Roland