Process Vs Thread

Process:

• Process is a heavy weight running instance of a program.
• A Process has its own memory space, runtime enivorment and process ID. One process can have multiple threads(It has atleast one main thread).
• Processes must use interprocess communication to communicate with silbing processes.
• Process is an architectural construct.

Thread:

• A thread is the smallest schedulable unit of execution in aWindows application.
• A thread always is associated with a particular process.Threads runs the code inside the process and share the address space with other threads inside the process i.e share process handles.
• Threads can directly communicate with other threads of its process.
• Thread is coding construct.