The Win32 Thread Pool API — Concurrency That Does Not Create Threads, with CreateThreadpoolWork (archived 2026-09-07)

Abstract

Calling CreateThread everywhere in native code? A primary-source guide to the Win32 thread pool API: the work, timer, wait, and io objects, cleanup groups, and callback rules. Archived version of https://comcomponent.com/en/blog/win32-thread-pool-api/, as published on 2026-09-07. The live article is maintained and may change after this date. First published 2026-08-22.