i run up to about 500 threads on my Java app with ease, with about 1/3 of them pumping significant data (think stereo streaming audio type data). I started wri

i run up to about 500 threads on my Java app with ease, with about 1/3 of them pumping significant data (think stereo streaming audio type data). I started writing some fancy asynch code, but on checking with a profiler, the thread overhead was pretty negligable, so I left it alone.