●●● ●●●● 4.1 Overview ●●●●● ●●● ●●●0● ●●●0 ● Benefits Responsiveness o Interactive application may continue running when part of it is blocked or is performing a lengthy operation ° Resource sharing o threads share the memory and the resource of process to which they belong To allow an application to have several different threads of activity within the same address space Economy e creation 30: 1, context switching 5: 1 o Utilization of multiprocessor architectures7 4.1 Overview ⚫ Benefits ⚫ Responsiveness ⚫ Interactive application may continue running when part of it is blocked or is performing a lengthy operation ⚫ Resource sharing ⚫ Threads share the memory and the resource of process to which they belong ⚫ To allow an application to have several different threads of activity within the same address space ⚫ Economy ⚫ creation 30:1, context switching 5:1 ⚫ Utilization of multiprocessor architectures