Multi-Threading

Definitions

1. A concurrency model in which a single process spawns multiple threads of execution that share the same memory space, enabling parallel work on multi-core CPUs but requiring synchronization primitives like mutexes and atomics to prevent data races.

   In plain English: Running multiple tasks at the same time within one program, sharing memory but needing careful coordination so they don't step on each other.

   Example: "Multi-threading cut the image processing time in half, but we had to add a mutex around the result vector to stop the occasional segfault."

Related Terms

• Parallelism
• Task Parallelism
• Thread
• Web Worker
• IPC
• Memory Pressure
• OS Thread
• Parallel Processing
• Pool
• Preemptive Scheduling
• Scheduler
• Shared Memory
• Spawning
• Stack Memory
• Time Slice
• Async Context
• Atomic Counter
• Blocking Call
• Bounded Channel
• Concurrency Limit
• Concurrent Map
• Concurrent Set