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Subject: Re: Python recompile
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On 3/10/2025 2:36 PM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
> On Mon, 10 Mar 2025 15:20:00 +0200, Michael S wrote:
> 
>> Similar to poll(), yes. Not so similar to super-ugly select(). I
>> hope that Unix people stopped using select in new programs two or
>> more decades ago.
> 
> Seems like WaitForMultipleObjects is more similar to select() than
> poll(), though: it has a fixed limit (MAXIMUM_WAIT_OBJECTS) on the
> number of objects you can wait on at once.
> 
>> But WaitForMultipleObjects can do things that poll can not, like
>> waiting on semaphore or on event or on thread (for completion, which
>> POSIX people, in their eternal fondness for idiotic names call
>> 'join').

[...]

For some damn reason I am remembering that the array that 
WaitForMultipleObjects waits on should be "shifted" or even randomized 
per call in a server loop that is using EVENTS. IIRC, this was way back 
in late 90's and early 2000's.