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Windows has raised the thread priority of the foreground program since at least 95...
by revelation 9y ago
Windows has raised the thread priority of the foreground program since at least 95...
- vonmoltke 9y agoThat mechanism only boosts the priority of whatever thread is actually attached to the window in the foreground. This doesn't matter for single-threaded applications (obviously), but means the background threads can get lower priority than the main threads of other applications.