Why is thread switch faster than a process switch?

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Amit Dhamija

  • Aug 14th, 2005
 

in process switch lots of work is to be done like storing the state of old process in its PCB and loading the saved state of new process which takes time and thus is complete overhead to CPU.where in case of threads extensive sharing makes thread inexpensive.we just hv to store register set information of thread..no memory -management related work is to be done.

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