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What is the difference between a process and a thread
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 ...
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How to pause / sleep thread or process in Android?
I want to make a pause between two lines of code, Let me explain a bit :
-> the user clicks a button (a card in fact) and I show it by changing the background of this button :
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android
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Process vs Thread
Recently I have been asked question in the interview whats the difference between process and thread. Really I did not know answer. I thought for a minute and gave very weird answer.
Threads share ...
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What is process and thread?
Yes, I have read many materials related to operating system. And I am still reading. But it seems all of them are describing the process and thread in a "abstract" way, which makes a lot of high level ...
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Async process start and wait for it to finish
I am new to the thread model in .net. What would you use to:
start a process that handles a file (process.StartInfo.FileName = fileName;)
wait for the user to close the process OR abandon the ...
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what is the difference between fork and thread
Can anyone explain the difference between a fork and a thread?
Thanks
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Why should I use a thread vs using a process?
I'm a newbie at this so please forgive me for my ignorance. Separating different parts of a program into different processes seems (to me) to make a more elegant program then just threading ...
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What is the scope of finalizer thread - per application domain or per process?
Based on all my reading there should be one GC thread to invoke all finalizers. Now, the question is what is the scope of this "one" thread - per process or per application domain, as the whole ...
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thread context switch vs process context switch
Could any one tell me what is exactly done in both situation? what is the main cost each of them?
12
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Process.waitFor(), threads, and InputStreams
In pseudocode, here's what I'm doing:
Process proc = runtime.exec(command);
processOutputStreamInThread(proc.getInputStream());
processOutputStreamInThread(proc.getErrorStream());
proc.waitFor()
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2answers
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Java Performance Processes vs Threads
I am implementing a worker pool in Java.
This is essentially a whole load of objects which will pick up chunks of data, process the data and then store the result. Because of IO latency there will ...
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Is it safe to fork from within a thread?
Let me explain: I have already been developing an application on Linux which forks and execs an external binary and waits for it to finish. Results are communicated by unique to the fork + process shm ...
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4answers
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Concurrency: Processes vs Threads
What are the main advantages of using a model for concurrency based on processes over one
based on threads and in what contexts is the latter appropriate?
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Processes, threads, green threads, protothreads, fibers, coroutines: what's the difference?
I'm reading up on concurrency. I've got a bit over my head with terms that have confusingly similar definitions. Namely:
Processes
Threads
"Green threads"
Protothreads
Fibers
Coroutines
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How to simulate different CPU frequency and limit RAM
Hi
I have to build a simulator with C#. This simulator should be able to run a second thread with configureable CPU speed and limited RAM size, e.g. 144MHz and 50 MB.
Of course I know that a simulator ...
