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Seetharaman Venkatasamy
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Hi Folks,

i read that thread is a light-weight process. but why Thread called as light-weight process ? i want to know the reason . please explain me
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seetharaman venkatasamy wrote:Hi Folks,

i read that thread is a light-weight process. but why Thread called as light-weight process ? i want to know the reason . please explain me


What is your definition of 'light-weight'?

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Google is your friend. (try this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Light-weight_process)

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I agree. Here's the link: http://ej-technologies/jprofiler - if it wasn't for jprofiler, we would need to run our stuff on 16 servers instead of 3.
 
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