What is Difference between thread and process?
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Answer / venkatesh.t
thread is an independent flow of control within a process,composed of context and a sequence of instructions to execute.All process consists of at-least one thread
process is a running program,a program under execution.it is an active entity on a machine.A process has a context and a state
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Answer / rajdeep gupta
Process is the execution of program.
If a program has different state execution then it is know as thread.
We can say that process is also a light weight thread.
ex - we work on MS-WORD then we type char simultaneously auto save the document and spell check , is a good example of thread.
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Answer / vineet
thread is a light weight process and process is heavy
weight means to say process occurs many threads and
superset of threads and also says threads are sub set of
process
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Answer / kammari.krishnaiah
A programm in execution,as mentioned is a process.A time
share user program such as a complier is a process.
A thread is contain a peace of code and each processor
contain the one or more threads.
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Answer / 6209
simply say thread is a light weight process(flow of
execution throw the process code)....
but process is heavy weight(heavey weight) process
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Answer / ashish sharma
Process is a seprate one and a thread is pa part of any process .Process can't communicate other processes but thread do it easily
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