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Thread (computing)
In computer science, a thread of execution is the smallest sequence of programmed instructions that can be managed independently by a scheduler, which is typically a part of the operating system.1 In many cases, a thread is a component of a process.
The multiple threads of a given process may be executed concurrently (via multithreading capabilities), sharing resources such as memory, while different processes do not share these resources. In particular, the threads of a process share its executable code and the values of its dynamically allocated variables and non- thread-local global variables at any given time.
The implementation of threads and processes differs between operating systems.2
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Lamport, Leslie (September 1979). “How to Make a Multiprocessor Computer That Correctly Executes Multiprocess Programs” (PDF). IEEE Transactions on Computers. C-28 (9): 690–691. Bibcode:1979ITCmp.100..690L. doi:10.1109/tc.1979.1675439. S2CID 5679366. ↩
Tanenbaum, Andrew S. (1992). Modern Operating Systems. Prentice-Hall International Editions. ISBN 0-13-595752-4. ↩
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