Hi Malcolm,

> I seem to remember from Iridium days that we tried to
> avoid doing per-instance locks on classes that had a lot
> of instances.

Right.

> If I'm using the ACE concurrency mechanisms does having a large
> number of instances with their own locks create any kind of resource
> problem?

It depends on which concurrency mechanisms you're using -- can you
please be more specific. In general, ACE concurrency mechanisms like
ACE_Task allow you to parameterize the synchronization strategies so
you can control the resource utilization.

Take care,

Doug