what is light weight process and heavy weight process?
what is light weight process and heavy weight process and how they differ?
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PradeepPosted Mar 4, 2015, 7:45 AM
Normally in lightweightprocess, it will process one or more threads. Each thread will share the same address space and communicating each other.
In a heavyweight process, new processes will be created to perform parallel tasks. and each process contains its own address space.