A thread is the smallest unit of execution within a process. A thread pool comprises of a number of threads, or, a collection of threads to be precise, and it can be used to perform several activities ...

Thread pools were devised to eliminate/mitigate the overhead involved in thread creation. But I'm having trouble proving to myself that (given some minimally nontrivial work) a thread's creation time ...

Pooling resources (also called object pooling) among multiple clients is a technique used to promote object reuse and to reduce the overhead of creating new resources, resulting in better performance ...