What is thread in java

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• Threads consumes CPU in best possible manner, hence enables multi processing. Multi threading reduces idle time of CPU which improves performance of application.

• Thread are light weight process.

• A thread class belongs to java.lang package.

• We can create multiple threads in java, even if we don’t create any Thread, one Thread at least  do exist i.e. main thread.

• Multiple threads run parallely in java.  

• Threads have their own stack.

• Advantage of Thread : Suppose one thread needs 10 minutes to get certain task, 10 threads used at a time could complete that task in 1 minute, because threads can run parallely.

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