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Thread Pool

Thread Pool

Owned by Eliot Muir
Feb 27, 2024
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A thread pool is a collection of pre-instantiated, idle threads that can be used to perform multiple tasks in parallel, reducing the overhead of creating and destroying threads on demand.

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We have an implementation of one of these called COLthreadPool which can be used to execute threaded code.

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