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From: "Chris M. Thomasson" <chris.m.thomasson.1@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Python recompile
Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2025 22:50:56 -0700
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On 3/10/2025 2:55 PM, Kaz Kylheku wrote:
> On 2025-03-10, Chris M. Thomasson <chris.m.thomasson.1@gmail.com> wrote:
>> 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.
> 
> You remember correctly. I remember coding this.

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