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A Thread’s Stack
16 September 09 01:24 PM | pavely | 130 comment(s)

When creating threads, we don’t usually think of its stack size. In the native world, the CreateThread function accepts a stack size (second argument) which we usually pass as 0. In the managed world, the Thread class exposes a pair of constructors expecting a stack size argument (which I was reminded by a comment). Why is this important? Creating threads has its costs. This is not only the added work the Windows scheduler must undertake or the data structures that must be allocated in the kernel...

תגים:.NET, DEV, Internals, Multithreading