Many threads (was Re: sleep and Timer)

[Peter Hansen]

Rob Hall wrote:
> 
> The main thing that concerned me though, was that this program will 
> have 500 or more threads running.  

This concerns me on another front.  Why do you need 500 threads
running!  There are very few applications where that's the best
design, I believe.

Have you considered other approaches, which in addition to being
more efficient would probably be simpler in many ways?

-Peter