What are the main families of threads?

If you are talking about “mainstream” systems programming languages on popular operating systems, there are three main families of threads.

  • POSIX-style threads, which generally run on Unix systems
  • Microsoft-style threads, which generally run on Windows systems
  • Java threads, which are specific to the Java language, but run on a variety of operating systems

Other software systems have their own ways of handling threads and concurrency. They are too numerous to cover, but here are a few links to the threading systems of popular cross-platform software systems.

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