What is a thread?

[manikyath]

7 hours ago, mr moose said:

I'll be honest,  I only came to this thread to see how many times the "sewing" thread joke would be done.  I am a little concerned it was more than twice... 

its LTT forums, be happy its not more than one page.

[LogicalDrm]

2 hours ago, manikyath said:

its LTT forums, be happy its not more than one page.

And if this would be in pinned thread (no pun intended), it would get re-answered every 3-9 months (inside joke reference to CS and LMGTFY's).

[fjdhdhcyfhf]

14 hours ago, manikyath said:

except that that's so oversimplified it could be interpreted as wrong.

ok. i hope you did not get your D caught in my post

[orangecat]

In computing a thread is just a pipe that data can be processed through in a sense. So a core i7 has 4 cores but 8 threads. It can process 8 things at the same time (sorta). A core i5 for example has 4 threads and 4 cores so it can only handle 4 data pipes at a time. Thats a really bad example but its good enough.