© Thomas Kunz 2000
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Benefits of Threads
äExample
1: a file server on a LAN
äIt
needs to handle several file requests over a short period
äHence
more efficient to create (and destroy) a single thread for each request
äOn
a SMP machine: multiple threads can possibly be executing simultaneously on different
processors
äExample 2: one thread display menu and read user input
while the other threads execute user commands