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> Just how many threads are you expecting to have? Is it worth saving some
> cycles here?

It's being called almost constantly, so yes.
 
> You could have a queue of Ready threads, pop a thread when required,
> push when done. That would allow you to have an entry, which would save
> the polling?
> 
>    entry Get (A_Thread : out Thread_Access) when Queue.Head /= null
>    is

I don't know why I didn't think to do that. It's using a stack now.