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Asked: 2026-05-13T05:46:53+00:00

It’s fairly well documented that when .NET’s automatic garbage collector runs, it will temporarily

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It’s fairly well documented that when .NET’s automatic garbage collector runs, it will temporarily pause all running managed threads associated with the application domain. What I haven’t been able to discover are details on what happens to native threads created by the application when garbage collection occurs (ie. using _beginthreadex() instead of System.Threading.Thread()). Are they similarly paused or are the left running?

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  1. Editorial Team

    Does this help?

    "A GC won’t stop threads that are not
    running managed code. Since those
    threads can’t be touching the GC’s
    heap anyways, there’s no need for the
    GC to coordinate with them."

    "If a thread was in managed code but
    called out to native code, it will
    continue to run. It will be stopped if
    it returns back to managed code."

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