What isthe difference between a 'thread' and a 'process'?

Answer Posted / m.suganya

threads are more efficient when compared to process. threads can finish a process fastly compared to the time taken by the process as a thread can create two or more threads and these threads cn share their resources among them..


hence the most important difference between thread and process is their efficiency and their ability to share their resources......

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