What are threads?

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What are threads? ..

Answer / guest

A thread is an encapsulation of the flow of control in a
program. Most people are used to writing single-threaded
programs - that is, programs that only execute one path
through their code "at a time". Multithreaded programs may
have several threads running through different code
paths "simultaneously".

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What are threads? ..

Answer / sowmya

thread is a light weight process which besides inside the
address space of a process.

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What are threads? ..

Answer / prakash p

A part of a program that can execute independently of other
parts.

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What are threads? ..

Answer / dhruv

In simple words, A dis-patchable unit of work. It includes a
processor context (which includes the program counter and
stack pointer) and its own data area for a stack (to enable
subroutine branching). Threads are created in a process. A
thread executes sequentially and is interruptable so that
the processor can turn to another thread.

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