Re: Python recompile

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').

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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.