Oh man, seeing UNIX people use WaitForMultipleObjects() as if it were select() (or, gasp, trying to use it for socket server stuff) just kills me. It's actuall

Oh man, seeing UNIX people use WaitForMultipleObjects() as if it were select() (or, gasp, trying to use it for socket server stuff) just kills me. It's actually a really sophisticated multi-semaphore behind the scenes; but that sophistication comes at an inevitable performance penalty, because the wait blocks are in a linked list and it's generally expensive (in comparison to say, a completion packet being queued to a port) to satisfy that wait (the kernel needs to check lots of things and do locking and unlocking and linked list manipulation).