http://blogs.msdn.com/pfxteam/archive/2009/07/07/9822857.aspxOne of the ways in which the Task Parallel Library achieves good performance is through “work-stealing”.  Work-stealing is supported in the .NET 4 ThreadPool for access through the Task Parallel Library and its default scheduler.  This manifestsen-USCommunityServer 2.1 SP1 (Build: 61025.2)