Question

Differentiate multitasking and multithreading.​

Answer 1

Multitasking:

•   Multitasking let CPU to execute multiple tasks at the same time.

•   In multitasking CPU switches between programs frequently.

•   In multitasking system has to allocate separate memory and resources to each program that CPU is executing.

Multithreading  

• Multithreading let CPU to execute multiple threads of a process simultaneously.

•  In multithreading CPU switches between the threads frequently.

•  In multithreading system has to allocate memory to a process, multiple threads of that process shares the same memory and resources allocated to the process.