Does anyone know? And a bigger question is what happens when you encounter this maximum? Is this the same number with other Windows OSs such as Vista, XP etc.?
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Does anyone know? And a bigger question is what happens when you encounter this maximum? Is this the same number with other Windows OSs such as Vista, XP etc.?
First I would advise reading this: http://blogs.msdn.com/oldnewthing/archive/2007/03/01/1775759.aspx
then http://blogs.msdn.com/oldnewthing/archive/2005/07/29/444912.aspx
To summarise, the limitation is normally stack space (which must be in contiguous blocks) and since every thread consumes this scattered about you rapidly run out of contiguous blocks. On 64 bit machines and operating systems this is much less of a problem.
Mitigation strategies exist but will only go so far (and rely on you not using much stack per thread)
As a rough guide:
You likely shouldn’t need to create more than ten anyway (and if you really do need to you should know this information already)