Joking aside I pretty much agree with this. Windows NT Object handles work pretty well. I assume they are pointers of some kind under the hood, but either way a

Joking aside I pretty much agree with this. Windows NT Object handles work pretty well. I assume they are pointers of some kind under the hood, but either way a machine word is probably large enough as it seems unlikely you would ever need to handle more open handles than you have bytes of addressable memory.