From: Dave Howell <groups@...>
Date: 2006-05-10T04:28:21+09:00
Subject: What's the difference between a Thread and a Process?

They seem similar, but by no means identical. My guess is that Ruby 
Threads are parallel execution paths within a single OS-level 'task,' 
but a Process is handed to the OS to be run as an independent task at 
the OS level?