• The ability of a central processing unit (CPU) or a single core in a multi-core processor to provide multiple threads of execution concurrently, supported by the operating system. The multithreading approach differs from multiprocessing. In a multithreaded application, the threads share the resources of a single or multiple cores, which include the computing units, the CPU caches, and the translation lookaside buffer (TLB). ← Wikipedia

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