I don't even understand the purpose of the comparison, other than syntax? It is also a pretty bad example of C# threading capabilities. From ThreadPool[1], Ta

I don't even understand the purpose of the comparison, other than syntax? It is also a pretty bad example of C# threading capabilities. From ThreadPool[1], Tasks[2] and more recently async/await[3], there's a lot more than vanilla threads in C#. [1] http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/3dasc8as.aspx http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/3dasc8as.aspx [2] http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd460717(v=vs.110).aspx http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd460717(v=vs.110).a... [3] http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh191443.aspx http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh191443.aspx