(How) Does TPL use (CLR) Thread Pool?

Question

I am currently researching Task Parallel Library and I read somewhere that TPL actually uses thread pool mechanism from CLR-Level. I couldn\'t find any article confirming th

Answer 1

In TPL, a TaskScheduler is responsible for actually queuing the tasks up for execution. The Default scheduler will use the thread-pool - but I believe it's the new thread pool implementation which actually does the work-stealing cleverness.

Daniel Moth has a blog post with some more details which you may find useful.