Using Threads in Your Applications
Brett Spell · Apress eBooks · 2015
If you’re like most users, you probably have more than one application running on your computer most of the time. In addition, you probably sometimes initiate a long-running task in one application and switch to another application while waiting for that task to complete. For example, you might start downloading a file from the Internet, or begin a search that scans your disk drive for files matching a particular pattern, and then read your e-mail while the download or search is in progress. Running multiple applications simultaneously (or at least appearing to do so) is called multitasking , and each application is usually referred to as a process . These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.