Thread (computer science)

A process with two threads of execution.

A thread in computer science is short for a thread of execution. Threads are a way for a program to split itself into two or more simultaneously (or pseudo-simultaneously) running tasks. Threads and processes differ from one operating system to another but, in general, a thread is contained inside a process and different threads in the same process share the same resources while different processes in the same multitasking operating system do not. Threads are lightweight, in terms of the system resources they consume, as compared with processes.

Sources

• David R. Butenhof: Programming with POSIX Threads, Addison-Wesley, ISBN 0-201-63392-2
• Bradford Nichols, Dick Buttlar, Jacqueline Proulx Farell: Pthreads Programming, O'Reilly & Associates, ISBN 1-56592-115-1
• Charles J. Northrup: Programming with UNIX Threads, John Wiley & Sons, ISBN 0-471-13751-0
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• Paul Hyde: Java Thread Programming, Sams, ISBN 0-672-31585-8
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• Steve Kleiman, Devang Shah, Bart Smaalders: Programming With Threads, SunSoft Press, ISBN 0-13-172389-8
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• Thuan Q. Pham, Pankaj K. Garg: Multithreaded Programming with Windows NT, Prentice Hall, ISBN 0-13-120643-5
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• Alan Burns, Andy Wellings: Concurrency in ADA, Cambridge University Press, ISBN 0-521-62911-X
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• Alan L. Dennis: .Net Multithreading , Manning Publications Company, ISBN 1-930110-54-5
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Other websites

• Multiple Threading in C# Archived 2016-09-19 at the Wayback Machine, Association for Technotechmedia, August 2016, by Isha Chopra
• Article "Query by Slice, Parallel Execute, and Join: A Thread Pool Pattern in Java Archived 2008-02-07 at the Wayback Machine" by Binildas C. A.
• Ars Technica article about multithreading, etc
• Answers to frequently asked questions for comp.programming.threads
• The C10K problem
• Article "The Free Lunch Is Over: A Fundamental Turn Toward Concurrency in Software" by Herb Sutter
• Article "The Problem with Threads Archived 2009-02-13 at the Wayback Machine" by Edward Lee
• parallel computing community Archived 2012-01-07 at the Wayback Machine
• POSIX threads explained by Daniel Robbins
• Multithreading in the Solaris Operating Environment Archived 2009-03-27 at the Wayback Machine
• Developer's Reference and tutorial Archived 2012-07-30 at the Wayback Machine