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What is a thread and advantages of using them? What are different models for organizing threads?
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Year: Dec 2015
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written 9.7 years ago by gravatar for teamques10 teamques10 ★ 70k

Motivation for Using Threads:

  • The main motivations for using a multithread process instead of multiple single-threaded processes for performing some computation activities are as follows:

  • The overheads involved in creating a ne wprocess are in general considerably greater than those of creating a new thread within a process.

  • Switching between …

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