Java: Processes and Threads

The Java Tutorials > Essential Classes > Concurrency > Processes and Threads

Sanghera's book confused me so I had to review the differences between processes and threads!

A process has a self-contained execution environment. A process generally has a complete, private set of basic run-time resources; in particular, each process has its own memory space.

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Threads are sometimes called lightweight processes. Both processes and threads provide an execution environment, but creating a new thread requires fewer resources than creating a new process.