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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 ...