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Introduction to threads in Java

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Introduction to threads in Java

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- [Instructor] Threads allow multiple actions to be performed at the same time inside a single process. Imagine someone is cooking a meal and they only have a stove with one burner. They need to cook rice and potatoes, but they can only cook one at a time. They have to wait for the rice to finish cooking before they can cook the potatoes. If they had a stove with two burners, they would be able to cook both the rice and potatoes at the same time. This would be much quicker. Threads work a bit like this. In this analogy, cooking the meal is the process, the burner is like the core in the CPU. When you have a stove with multiple burners, you can cook multiple ingredients at once. Similarly, when you have a machine with multiple cores, you can run multiple tasks at the same time. In programming, a single process can have multiple threads working at the same time. Like a process, a thread is an independent path of execution that runs in isolation. Each thread has its own stack and its own…

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