Actually -all- the threads would have to be idle for them to be swapped
out.

Threads share all memory, all open files, everything.

The only difference is the internal CPU registers, which are stored in
the process table in the kernel.

You gain maybe a couple hundred bytes in the process table by having
one less thread.  (And since that is kernel memory and never swapped,
who cares... )


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