Threads can be used to implement parallelism. For UNIX-based systems, a standardized C language threads programming interface has been specified by the IEEE POSIX 1003.1c standard. Implementations that adhere to this standard are referred to as POSIX threads, or Pthreads. Windows does not support pthreads directly, instead the Pthreads-w32 project seeks to provide a portable …

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