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Threads
or many of you, the concept of threads might not be a new one. Many popular languages support threading, either inherently or through the use of external libraries. In spite of this, it is possible that you might not have used threads at all— most of the time, when you write a program, creating threads is not a general requirement. What’s more, writing multithreaded code is hard and debugging such code makes it worse. So do we really need to care about learning threads? Yes, we do. The programs you studied so far in the book have ...
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