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  multithreading
       
           Sharing a single CPU between multiple tasks (or
          "threads") in a way designed to minimise the time required to
          switch threads.  This is accomplished by sharing as much as
          possible of the program execution environment between the
          different threads so that very little state needs to be saved
          and restored when changing thread.
       
          Multithreading differs from multitasking in that threads
          share more of their environment with each other than do tasks
          under multitasking.  Threads may be distinguished only by the
          value of their program counters and stack pointers while
          sharing a single address space and set of global
          variables.  There is thus very little protection of one
          thread from another, in contrast to multitasking.
       
          Multithreading can thus be used for very fine-grain
          multitasking, at the level of a few instructions, and so can
          hide latency by keeping the processor busy after one thread
          issues a long-latency instruction on which subsequent
          instructions in that thread depend.
       
          A light-weight process is somewhere between a thread and a
          full process.
       
          TL0 is an example of a threaded machine language.
          Dataflow computation (E.g. Id and SISAL) is an extreme
          form of multithreading.
       
          (1997-12-23)
       
       

  multithreading
     n.
     (lb en computing) The use of multithreaded code.

  multithreading
     n.
     (lb en computing) The use of multithreaded code.

  multithreading
     n.
     (lb en computing) The use of multithreaded code.

  multithreading
     n.
     (lb en computing) The use of multithreaded code.

  multithreading
     Engelska n.
     (tagg data språk=en) flertrådning

  Multi-threading /mˈʊltiː tɾˈeːadˌɪŋ/ 
  multi-threading , multithreading 
     Synonym: Multithreading
  

  Multithreading /mˈʊltɪtɾˌeːadˌɪŋ/ 
   [comp.] multi-threading , multithreading 
     Synonym: Multi-threading
  

  multi-threading /mˈʌlti θɹˈɛdɪŋ/
  Multi-threading, Multithreading  [comp.]
     Synonym: multithreading
  

  multithreading /mˌʌltɪθɹˈɛdɪŋ/
  Multi-threading, Multithreading  [comp.]
     Synonym: multi-threading
  

  multithreading /myl.ti.sʁɛd.iŋ/ 
  flertrådning

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