PROCESSES and threads have one goal: Getting a computer to do more than one thing at a time. To do that, the processor (or processors) must switch smoothly among several tasks, which requires ...

You are probably accustomed to the idea that your smartphone can run more than one app at a time. Even if you are only used to seeing just one app in the foreground, you will have noticed that some ...

What happens when a single process runs more threads than the CPU has? The scenario is that I have a process scanning two directories for matching files. OS is Windows 11. The program can have the ...