Hi,

> > Very important details though. 
> sorry, I didn't mean that to be flippant. 

It wasn't. When I read about this stuff I thought "gee, this is great" until
I tried to use it... ;-)

> btw, do you know that there is a problem with the timer 
> resolution for Windows event objects? 

(*wisely nodding*) I know.

> Depending on the 
> implementation of the Windows NT HAL (I found a paper on the 
> web) you can get varying resolution from a call like Sleep(1) 
> or waitForSingleObject(event, timeout) that varies from 1ms 
> to 16ms.  I wrote a test program and ran it on all the 
> machines in the office and got really worrying results.  
> There is a hack available using timeBeginPeriod(), 
> timeEndPeriod() where you can get the linker to link in 
> multimedia timers.  Windows then does some bodge to improve 
> the resolution of your events.  It totally sucks.  I wasn't 
> sure if you had come across this and whether it impacted 
> anything in the VM area.

It does. And so we're using the timeBeginPeriod()/timeEndPeriod() hack ;-)

Cheers,
  - Andreas