Chapter 26. Thread Basics
In this chapter:
Why Does Windows Support Threads?
CLR Threads and Windows Threads
Using a Dedicated Thread to Perform an Asynchronous Compute-Bound Operation
Thread Scheduling and Priorities
Foreground Threads vs. Background Threads
In this chapter, I introduce the basic concepts concerning threads, and I offer a way for developers to conceptualize about them and their use. I’ll explain why Windows introduced the concept of threads, CPU trends, the relationship between common language runtime (CLR) threads and Windows threads, the overhead associated with using threads, how Windows schedules threads, the Microsoft .NET Framework classes that expose thread ...
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