Program vs Process vs Thread
Explore the essential distinctions between programs, processes, and threads in C#. This lesson explains how these concepts operate within concurrency, highlighting how threads share process resources and the challenges of synchronization during multithreading.
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Program vs Process vs Thread
Program
A program is a set of instructions and associated data that resides on the disk and is loaded by the operating system to perform a task. An executable file (.exe), a Windows forms application, a python script file are all examples of programs. In order to run a program, the operating system's kernel is first asked to create a new process, which is an environment in which a program is executed.
Process
A process is a program in execution. A process is an execution environment that consists of instructions, user-data, and system-data segments, as well as lots of other resources such as CPU, ...