The Purpose and Usage of Threads
This article addresses the motivation for using threads, how they are created, and how they are used. The terms task and thread are used interchangeably in this article. Processes can in fact share data if the operating system and hardware allow for it, but for small embedded applications, the operating system, or the hardware may not have the ability to accomplish this and therefore, processes cannot be created.
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