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I am in the process of writing some network based software for my own use and I thought the best way of handling it would be through a thread pool like system.
I did write something like that a while ago here:
http://www.purebasic.fr/english/viewtopic.php?t=24417
but, I am unsure how well it will withstand considering I am throwing a lot of memory buffers and pointers I was wondering what is the do's and don'ts of programming asynchronously efficiently with threads and does it matter that the end-user has a muilt-core system or not?

Your code looks to have a good design for mutexes already so you should be okay. I don't think multi cores should give you any new trouble, just increase the likelyhood of threads bumping into eachother or locking if mutexes are not used where they are supposed to be.

Doing these sorts of threaded net apps in the past the hardest part has been the method for queueing so that if you have 1000 tasks (like reading reg keys from every system on the network) and want to do it with 20 threads to come up with a clean queue that can be mutexed without locking up. I wonder if a linked list would make a good queue ....