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Multithreading or multiprocessing?

Given all this information, deciding which approach is the best means having an understanding of the type of work that needs to be carried out, and knowledge about the system that will be dedicated to doing that work.

There are advantages to both approaches, so let's try to clarify the main differences.

Here are some advantages of using multithreading:

• Threads are all born within the same process. They share resources and can communicate with one another very easily. Communication between processes requires more complex structures and techniques.
• The overhead of spawning a thread is smaller than that of a process. Moreover, their memory footprint is also smaller.
• Threads can be very effective at blocking ...