process/threads/tasks

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  1. priyapai

    priyapai New Member

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    Hi

    could ne1 please explain me a PROCESS, THREAD, TASK in simple words.

    n what is the difference between the 3 of them.



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    priya
     
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    Process

    Process is a naturally occurring or designed sequence of operations or events, possibly taking up time, space, expertise or other resource, which produces some outcome. A process may be identified by the changes it creates in the properties of one or more objects under its influence

    Thread

    Threads are similar to processes, in that both represent a single sequence of instructions executed in parallel with other sequences, either by time slicing or multiprocessing. Threads are a way for a program to split itself into two or more simultaneously running tasks

    Task

    A set of program instructions is loaded in memory

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