What's the difference between a process and a thread? What do threads share, and what does each one keep to itself?
A process is a unit of execution with its own address space and resources; a thread is a flow of execution inside it that keeps only its own stack and shares the heap. Threads are expensive and more of them than cores is waste, so you hand work to the system pool.
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