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Comment by dwattttt

15 hours ago

It's been a while, but I believe Windows initialises an internal thread pool & parallelises (some parts of) process start / module loading

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vlovich123  14 hours ago

You’re right. I hadn’t realized that Windows creates a hidden thread pool under the hood for parallelized DLL loading.

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