Aaron Scott-Boddendijk wrote:
> > Whats the technical difference between multitasking and multithreading?
>
> Multi-tasking is generally what an OS does to allow several independant programs
> to perform their own work (appearing to the user as if it's simultaneous).
>
> Multi-threading is usually the concept of several interdependant streams of
> execution working together to reach a common goal.
The common goal being that the threads all belong to the same process. Each thread in a
process has its own stack, but all the threads in a process share other resources like
a
heap, file handles, etc. Processor time is scheduled between threads, which are
contained
within processes.
So multi-tasking is a general term that refers to scheduling of processor time between
threads (or between processes in an OS that does not support multi-threading). And
multi-threading is a specific type of multi-tasking.
Kevin Wells
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