Multiple choice technology platforms and products

Thread is a lightweight process. True or False

  1. True

  2. False

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A Correct answer
Explanation

Threads are called lightweight processes because they share the same address space, resources, and memory of their parent process. Unlike creating a new process (which requires duplicating the entire memory space), creating a thread only requires allocating a new stack and thread-specific data. This makes thread creation and context switching much faster and more efficient.