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task == thread of control. (Seriously? downvoted because I gave a direct, true answer to a question?)
by TickleSteve 10y ago
task == thread of control.
(Seriously? downvoted because I gave a direct, true answer to a question?)
- Bromskloss 10y agoI'm afraid I don't know what you mean by that either.
- vonmoltke 10y agoIt must unknowingly be embedded-specific terminology, because I knew exactly what he was talking about.
- Bromskloss 10y agoSo, what is it, then?
- TickleSteve 10y agowhat is a task/thread/process? where do I start.... a processor naturally has one thread of control, i.e. it executes instructions sequentially. To simulate multiple things happening at a time a context-switcher periodically saves and restores the current processor state and switches to another sequence. Each sequence is a thread-of-control... commonly known as a thread (or task, or process). ...and this isn't embedded-specific, just computer-science specific.
- Bromskloss 10y agoI know what a thread is. I thought you meant something special with "thread of control".