Should I notice a difference in using Task vs Threads in .Net 4.0?

Question

I updated my code to use Tasks instead of threads....

Looking at memory usage and CPU I do not notices any improvements on the multi-core PC, Is this expected?

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Answer 1

One great improvement of Takss vs. Threads is that you can easiely build chains of tasks. You can specify when a task should start after the previous task ("OnSuccess", "OnError", a.s.o.) and you can specify if there should be a synchronization context switch. That gives you the great opportunity to run a long running task in bakcground and after that a UI refershing task on the UI thread.