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<p>often parallel the software techniques used for <a href="page.php?w=multitasking_of_computer_programs">computer multitasking</a>. Thread scheduling is also a major problem in multithreading.</p>

<p>Merging data from two processes can often incur significantly higher costs compared to processing the same data on a single thread, potentially by two or more orders of magnitude due to overheads such as inter-process communication and synchronization.</p>

<p><big>Types</big></p>
<p>The simplest type of multithreading occurs when one thread runs until it</p><p>
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