Starting Threads
Understand how threads are started in this lesson.
We'll cover the following...
spawn()
spawn()
takes a function pointer as a parameter and starts a new thread from that function. Any operations that are carried out by that function, including other functions that it may call, would be executed on the new thread.
The main difference between a thread that is started with
spawn()
and a thread that is started withtask()
is the fact thatspawn()
makes it possible for threads to send messages to each ...