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Threads are sometimes called lightweight processes because they have their own stack but can access shared data. Because threads share the same address space as the process and other threads within the process, the operational cost of communication between the threads is low, which is an advantage.
In contrast, threads can share class fields and instance fields because those variables do not allocate on a thread’s method-call stack. Instead, they allocate in shared heap memory—as part of classes (class fields) or objects (instance fields).
Which information do threads share with their peer?
A thread shares with its peer threads few information like code segment, data segment and open files. When one thread alters a code segment memory item, all other threads see that.
What is the relationship between thread and stack?
Each thread’s stack is a chunk of memory allocated at thread creation time, with the current stack top address stored in a stack pointer register, and each thread keeps its own stack pointer along with its other registers.
Note: stack and registers can’t be shared among the threads. Each thread has its own stack and registers.
Can a thread have multiple processes?
Multithreading is a widespread programming and execution model that allows multiple threads to exist within the context of one process. These threads share the process’s resources, but are able to execute independently.
Which one is not shared by threads?
Threads can not share stack (used for maintaining function calls) as they may have their individual function call sequence.
What data is shared between threads in a process?
Everything else is shared between the threads sharing a process. In particular a process is generally considered to consist of a set of threads sharing an address space, heap, static data, and code segments, and file descriptors *. An address space is simply the mapping of logical addresses to specific pieces of physical memory.
Threads share the code and data segments and the heap, but they don’t share the stack. There’s a difference between “able to access data in the stack” and sharing the stack. Those threads have their own stacks which get pushed and popped when they call methods.
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How does threading affect the address space of a process?
There is one address space for the whole process. Each thread has its own stack and registers, but all threads’ stacks are visible in the shared address space. If one thread allocates some object on its stack, and sends the address to another thread, they’ll both have equal access to that object.