C# – ThreadPool vs Tasks

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The objective of the Tasks namespace is to provide a pluggable architecture to make multi-tasking applications easier to write and more flexible.

The implementation uses a TaskScheduler object to control the handling of tasks. This has virtual methods that you can override to create your own task handling. Methods include for instance

protected virtual void QueueTask(Task task)
public virtual int MaximumConcurrencyLevel

There will be a tiny overhead to using the default implementation as there’s a wrapper around the .NET threads implementation, but I’d not expect it to be huge.

There is a (draft) implementation of a custom TaskScheduler that implements multiple tasks on a single thread here.

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