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From: tmoran@acm.org
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Subject: Re: [OT] Two sockets questions
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>I'm a bit afraid of using so many (say two thousands) tasks (are they
>really that light? What computer is necessary for that number? I have a
  Out of curiosity, I just successfully ran an, admittedly trivial,
program with 2,000 simultaneous tasks.
  IIRC BTW, Windows sockets are polled, not interrupting.  Non-blocking
sockets send messages to the desired window, and you watch for them
by polling PeekMessage.