We have already covered this very point in the Resource sharing section earlier in the beginning portion of this chapter (re-read it, if required). The bottom line is this: thread creation is comparatively cheap as opposed to process creation (the same goes for destruction). Also, the memory footprint of a thread as opposed to a process is much lower. Thus, resource sharing, and the associated performance advantages, are obtained.
Resource sharing
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