Learning .NET High-performance Programming

Threading

A thread is a virtual processor that can run some c3ode from any AppDomain. Although at any single time a thread can run code from a single domain, it can cross domain boundaries when needed. Indeed, in the preceding example, there is only a single thread that did the entire job for all three AppDomains.

Without diving into the internals of Windows threading, we should know that a CLR thread is actually a Windows thread. This one has a high creation cost (even worse for 64-bit systems) as in any other virtualization technique, although in Windows, creating a process is even worse in terms of resource usage. This is why Microsoft has supported multi-threading programming in its operating systems since the age of Windows NT.

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