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Module 2.

2 Thread
Swati Mali
Nirmala Shinde Baloorkar
Assistant Professor
Department of Computer Engineering
Outline

• Thread
• Process Vs Thread
• Example
Thread
• Supports Parallelism with multiple threads of execution at a time
• A thread executes sequentially and is interrupt-able so that the processor
can turn to another thread
• Does not need entire process context to execute so considered as
lightweight.
• Includes the program counter and stack pointer) and its own data area for a
stack
• Supports multiple parallel executions
e.g. Notifications in background while you are using the app
• The idea is to achieve parallelism by dividing a process into multiple
threads.
Process and Thread

• A process is an instance of a • A thread is the unit of execution


program in execution. within a process.
• It is a basic unit of work that can • A process can have anywhere
be scheduled and executed by the from just one thread to many
operating system. threads.
Thread

• Multithreading refers to the ability of an OS to support multiple,


concurrent paths of execution within a single process.
Thread
The key benefits of threads

• It takes far less time to create a new thread in an existing process than
to create a brand-new process.
• It takes less time to terminate a thread than a process.
Types of threads

• Kernel level threads : managed by kernel


• User level threads : managed by user with support from programming
languages and libraries
• Hybrid threads
Thread

• Thread libraries provide programmers with API for the creation and
management of threads.
• Three types of Thread
• POSIX Pitheads may be provided as either a user or kernel library, as an
extension to the POSIX standard.
• Win32 threads are provided as a kernel-level library on Windows systems.
• Java threads: Since Java generally runs on a Java Virtual Machine, the
implementation of threads is based upon whatever OS and hardware the JVM
is running on, i.e. either Pitheads or Win32 threads depending on the system.
Thread

• Create
• Join
• Terminate
Create, Start and Join

• A thread can be created using the Thread class provided by


the threading module. Using this class, you can create an instance of
the Thread and then start it using the .start() method.
Create & Start
• 1st execution

• 2nd execution
Join() Method

• The join() method is used in that situation, it doesn’t let execute the
code further until the current thread terminates.
Assignment

• ULT vs KLT
• Pthread
• POSIX
Question ?

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