What is difference between thread and process?

Posted On: May 26, 2021

 

Process means a program that is under execution that runs in separate memory spaces whereas a thread means a segment of a process that shares information like data segment, code segment, files, etc. with its peer threads while it contains its own registers, stack, counter, etc.

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