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Thursday, October 28, 2010

What is the difference between a process and a thread

Programmer Question

What is the technical difference between a process and a thread? I get the feeling a word like 'process' is over used and there is also hardware and software threads. How about light-weight processes in languages like Erlang? Is there a definitive reason to use one term over the other?



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