15.3. Thread Priorities and Thread Scheduling
Every thread has a priority in the range between ThreadPriority.Lowest and ThreadPriority.Highest. These values come from the ThreadPriority enumeration (namespace System.Threading), which consists of the values Lowest, BelowNormal, Normal, AboveNormal and Highest. By default, each thread has priority Normal.
The Windows operating system supports a concept called timeslicing that enables threads of equal priority to share a processor. Without timeslicing, each thread in a set of equal-priority threads runs to completion (unless the thread leaves the Running state and enters the WaitSleepJoin, Suspended or Blocked state) before the thread’s peers get a chance to execute. With timeslicing, each thread ...
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