How does multithreading take place on a computer with a single CPU
The operating system's task scheduler allocates execution time to multiple tasks. Byquickly switching between executing tasks, it creates the impression that tasks executesequentially.
RE: How does multithreading take place on a computer with a single CPU
By quickly switching among executing tasks, it creates the impression that the tasks execute simultaneously. If it didn't switch among the tasks, they would execute sequentially.
RE: How does multithreading take place on a computer w...
multi-threading has two forms, theory and reality. In theory, multi-threading is suppose to be the same as "multi-tasking" which means do two different task at the same time. Not possible on a single CPU unless you consider GPU and ALU which generally we do not (consider them). In reality, multi-threading does more than create an illusion, it allows computers to shut down a program in infinite loop by creating another thread so CPU executes one iteration of the loop, switch to the kill thread and terminates the loop. Multi-tasking was suppose to do that but not as well handled.
