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The title really says it all, what are threads? I have a pretty good idea of what multiple cores are but I have no idea what threads are

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geez go get a room guys

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If only there was a video I could watch that would tell me

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Play them all at once. It's fun.

Too much linus

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Display: its asus Cooling: fans Keyboard: logitech g710+ #browns4lyfe Mouse: its a logitech Sound: its what you hear Operating System: winders  

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Hey, don't know if you've seen this already, but there is this super cool video by Linus. Should tell you all you need to know

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ahaahh all these together are great xD

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Threads are tasks?... Any sort of thing that needs to be processed in a serial fashion. Unlike cores. You can have much more threads depending on what you're doing. A game for example, may have a thread tracking the player health, a thread tracking ammo, a thread tracking player locations, you get the idea. So there can be 1 bizzilion threads when the CPU only has 4 cores. The cores will just process the threads separately. Although the cores will switch between the threads so quickly you may mistaken it as 1 bizzillion things happening simultaneously. Does that answer your question?

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