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multithreading
Last modified: Thursday, October 24, 2002  

The ability of an operating system to execute different parts of a program, called threads, simultaneously. The programmer must carefully design the program in such a way that all the threads can run at the same time without interfering with each other.

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    Multithreading resource page
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    Introduction to Multithreading, Superthreading and Hyperthreading
    A comprehensive explanation of these three threading techniques.


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