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Threads vs Processes

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Multiple processes / tasks
Separate programs.
Separate address spaces.
High switching overhead
Costly interprocess communication.
Threads
Within one program.
Shared address space
May use same hardware cache
May use same virtual memory.
Shared heap.
Separate stack for each thread.
Lower switching overhead than processes.


 

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