difference between a thread and a computer process

1. Threads are easier to create than processes since they don't require a separate address space.

2. Multithreading requires careful programming since threads share data strucures that should only be modified by one thread at a time. Unlike threads, processes don't share the same address space.

3. Threads are considered lightweight because they use far less resources than processes.

4. Processes are independent of each other. Threads, since they share the same address space are interdependent, so caution must be taken so that different threads don't step on each other. This is really another way of stating #2 above.

5. A process can consist of multiple threads.