Process
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Thread
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| A program in execution. | Part of a process. |
| Heavy weight and take more resources. | Light weight and take less resources. |
| Take more time for creation. | Take less time for creation. |
| Every process has its own memory space. | It use memory of the process they belong to. |
| Communication is slow and complex. | Easy and efficient communication. |
| Memory is not shared. | Memory is shared |
| If one process crashes it doen’t affect other. | If one thread crashes it affect other. |
| Expensive context switching. | Inexpensive context switching. |
| If process is dies,its all resources are reclaimed and all threads dies. | If thread is dies,its stack is reclaimed. |
| In multiple processes each process operates independently. | One thread change,read and write another threads data. |
| It has code/heap/data and other segments. | It has no data segments and heap. |
