managed threads

I found this while in my surfing and thought it was a noteworthy point on .net multi-threading.

quoted from http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms998547.aspx (bold is mine):

The CLR exposes managed threads, which are distinct from Microsoft Win32(R) threads. The logical thread is the managed representation of a thread, and the physical thread is the Win32 thread that actually executes code. You cannot guarantee that there will be a one-to-one correspondence between a managed thread and a Win32 thread.

If you create a managed thread object and then do not start it by calling its Start method, a new Win32 thread is not created. When a managed thread is terminated or it completes, the underlying Win32 thread is destroyed. The managed representation (the Thread object) is cleaned up only during garbage collection some indeterminate time later.

The .NET Framework class library provides the ProcessThread class as the representation of a Win32 thread and the System.Threading.Thread class as the representation of a managed thread.

Poorly-written multithreaded code can lead to numerous problems including deadlocks, race conditions, thread starvation, and thread affinity. All of these issues can negatively impact application performance, scalability, resilience, and correctness.