New to threads. How do they work?

[Grant Edwards]

On 2006-07-22, Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo at geek-central.gen.new_zealand> wrote:

>> I've never understood the aversion people seem to have to
>> threads.
>
> Perhaps because with threads, data is shared by default.
> Whereas with processes, it is private by default, and needs to
> be explicitly shared if you want that.

Only global data is shared.  I guess if you use a lot of global
data that's an issue.  I tend not to.  The problem with
processes is that sharing data is hard.

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