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Please see discussion.
Please see discussion.
This site provides in-depth info about threads, threads-pooling, scheduling:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms684841(VS.85).aspx
Here is another site that outlines THREAD designs and techniques:
http://people.csail.mit.edu/rinard/osnotes/h2.html
Interesting presentation: really worth checking out www.cosc.brocku.ca/Offerings/4P13/slides/threads.ppt

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Question

How is it possible for systems to supports millions of threads or more within a single process? What are the key design choices that make such systems work - and how do those choices affect the utility of such massively scalable thread implementations?

Answer

Please see discussion.