Compute | Operating Systems

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The main criterion we use to rank CPUs is their computation power, i.e. their ability to crunch numbers and do math.

A process is simply a running program.

Spreading the Work Among Other Threads

We'll take a look at how a real-world application - the apache2 HTTP server - makes use of processes and threads.

So far, you know that the parent and child process have separate virtual address spaces.

So far, we've used threads and processes without wondering how to "tell" them how to access shared data.

User-level threads differ from the threads you are used to (kernel-level threads, those created by pthread_create).

Threads and Processes: clone