2007-01-06 00:29:46 · 3 answers · asked by lia 1 in Computers & Internet ➔ Programming & Design
If you are talking about programming, threading and forking are two different ways of achieving multi-tasking or at least the illusion of it on a single processor machines.
Threads are lightweight processes. They share the state information and address space with the host process, while forked processes are heavy weight processes that have their own address space etc and can communicate with each other using IPCs.
Most of the recent applications are the multi-threaded as they hog less on resources.
2007-01-10 07:22:48 · answer #1 · answered by Sanjay 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I know there is threaded, flat and hybrid mode for viewing boards and a forked mode sounds like a synonym to the threaded mode.
2007-01-07 18:10:42 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Don't know
2007-01-14 03:45:30 · answer #3 · answered by BigWashSr 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋