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The and functions allow you to specify whether you want to want for any or all of the handles (either by passing or by passing , accordingly). But you never want to wait for all handles. Waiting for all handles means that the call does not return unless all the handles are signalled and a window message meeting your wake criteria has arrived. S...

We can use the function (or its superset ) to carry out a non-polling "sleep while processing messages". This function pumps messages for up to milliseconds. The kernel of the idea is merely to use the function as a surrogate for , pumping messages until the cumulative timeout has been reached. There are a lot of small details to pay heed to...

There is no function, but you can create your own with the assistance of the function. To wait for a message with timeout, we use the in a vacuous sense: You pass it a list of objects you want to wait for, as well as a timeout and a set of queue states, asking that the function return when any of the objects is signalled or when a message is...

Polling kills. A program should not poll as a matter of course. Doing so can have serious consequences on system performance. It's like checking your watch every minute to see if it's 3 o'clock yet instead of just setting an alarm. First of all, polling means that a small amount of CPU time gets eaten up at each poll even though there is nothing ...

There are many cases where a callback function is allowed to halt an operation. For example, you might decide to return to the message to prevent the window from being created, or you might decide to return to one of the many enumeration callback functions such as the callback. When you do this, the enclosing operation will return failure bac...

There is no requirement that it does, and it often doesn't.

There are many algorithms for fast string searching, but the running of a string search is inherently O(n), where n is the length of the string being searched: If m is the length of the string being searched for (which I will call the "target string"), then any algorithm that accesses fewer than n/m elements of the string being searc...

Often, it doesn't pay off to be too clever. Back in the 1980's, I'm told the file system group was working out what in-memory data structures to use to represent the contents of a directory so that looking up a file by name was fast. One of the experiments they tried was the splay tree. Splay trees were developed in 1985 by Sleator and Tarjan as a ...

Many limitations, some with security implications.

Remember that you have to understand what things mean in context. For example, the IActiveMovie3 interface has a method called get_MediaPlayer. If you come into this method without any context, you might expect it to return a pointer to an IMediaPlayer interface, yet the header file says that it returns a pointer to an IDispatch interface instead. ...