Thread vs Process: What's the Difference?
Thread vs Process: What’s the Difference? When you write software, you often want it to do multiple things at once. This is where processes and threads come in — both allow concurrency, but in different ways. What is a Process? A process is an independent program running on your system. Each process has: Its own memory space. Own resources (file descriptors, sockets). At least one thread (the main thread). Example: If you open Chrome and VSCode, each one is a process. ...