-=> Quoting Eelco Dolstra to Phil Crown <=- 

 ED> That is also possible, but starting a new thread has a "non-trivial
 ED> overhead" (according to IBM). It is probably better to have object
 ED> window threads for all the tasks your application will ever need to
 ED> do, and start them all at once at program start-up (like PMSHELL.EXE
 ED> does, which has more than 20 threads). 

I saw this mentioned about the overhead in one of the multi-threading
examples on DevCon.

I think I will create all threads (or at least the most often used) at
program startup.  I am using up to 11 threads, but only 2 - 5 are usually
active at any one time.

Thanks for the help.

Phil
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