A thread is a light weight process. In the above statement, weight refers to

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Answer: B. number of resources — A thread is considered lightweight because it shares memory and resources with other threads in the same process. This resource sharing reduces the system…

A.
time
B.
number of resources
C.
speed
D.
All the above

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Correct answer: B

A thread is considered lightweight because it shares memory and resources with other threads in the same process. This resource sharing reduces the system overhead required to manage execution compared to full processes.

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