Reflections

I always had this problem of missing my friends birthdays. I would remember it a day afterwards or sometimes ( worst scenario), they would call me up and remind me. I would be engrossed in my work and I would lose myself in time. And this is the only reason. I really cared a lot for my near and dear ones. The following post is an attempt to solve the issue of not remembering birthdays on time. Facebook had a list of all the birthdays of my friends. Brilliant! Sometime back, I had downloaded all the birthdays from Facebook in Excel format. Google search revealed 123greetings and AmericanGreetings. And my work is in progress...

Process Process is a virtual address space. Threads They execute code. They can be considered as a path of execution through a single process. This means they follow a path of execution through an exe and probably many dll's in the process space. Threads usually have access to all the code within a process space. But in .Net managed code, the accessible of the threads are limited to the app domain. In windows, when all the the threads have exited from a process space, windows calls the "tear down" method of the process to destroy the process. Multi threading advantages 1. Can utilize multi-cores in multi-core machines 2. Can give a more responsive UI by increasing the priority for the UI thread. 3. Perform CPU bound operations while I/O operations are waiting to complete. Disadvantages In a single thread CPU, it will take more time. Explanation This is due to the extra time for scheduler to stop a thread and assign the remaining part of the work