https://www.infinitescript.com/tags/concurrency/Recent content in Concurrency on Infinite ScriptHugoen-usSun, 28 Sep 2014 06:31:41 +0000https://www.infinitescript.com/2014/09/difference-between-process-and-thread/Sun, 28 Sep 2014 06:31:41 +0000https://www.infinitescript.com/2014/09/difference-between-process-and-thread/<p>Processes and threads are both units of execution managed by the operating system, and they are easy to mix up. The short version: a process is a running instance of a program with its own memory, while a thread is a lighter-weight unit of execution that lives inside a process and shares that memory with its siblings. This post looks at each in turn, then summarizes how the two differ.</p>