Discussion
A thread is a light weight process. In the above statement, weight refers to
Answer: B
A thread is called a light weight process because it needs fewer resources than a full process. Threads of a process share the code, data and open files, and only the registers and the stack are private to each, so creating and switching them is cheaper. The weight in the statement therefore refers to the number of resources. Time and speed are results of this and not what weight means. The keyed answer is the number of resources.
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