Difference between Process and Thread

线程&进程不同点：

What is a Process?

• A process is the execution of a program that allows you to perform
  the appropriate actions specified in a program.
• It can be defined as an execution unit where a program runs.
• The OS helps you to create, schedule, and terminates the processes
  which is used by CPU.
• The other processes created by the main process are called child
  process.

What is Thread?

• Thread is an execution unit that is part of a process.
• A process can have multiple threads, all executing at the same time.
• It is a unit of execution in concurrent(同时) programming.
• A thread is lightweight and can be managed independently by a scheduler.
• It helps you to improve the application performance using parallelism.

进程：指在系统中正在运行的一个应用程序；程序一旦运行就是进程；
进程——资源分配的最小单位。

线程：系统分配处理器时间资源的基本单元，或者说进程之内独立执行的一个单元执行流。
线程——程序执行的最小单位。

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小结：

1.进程要分配一大部分的内存，而线程只需要分配一部分栈就可以了.

2.一个程序至少有一个进程,一个进程至少有一个线程.

3.进程是资源分配的最小单位，线程是程序执行的最小单位。

4.一个线程可以创建和撤销另一个线程，同一个进程中的多个线程之间可以并发执行.