Thread is basically a lightweight sub-process, a smallest unit of processing. Multiprocessing and multithreading, both are used to achieve multitasking
Multithreading is a process of executing multiple threads simultaneously. Its main advantage is:
Threads share the same address space.
Thread is lightweight.
Cost of communication between process is low.
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Thread is basically a lightweight sub-process, a smallest unit of processing. Multiprocessing and multithreading, both are used to achieve multitasking
Multithreading is a process of executing multiple threads simultaneously. Its main advantage is:
Threads share the same address space.
Thread is lightweight.
Cost of communication between process is low.