Advantages and Disadvantages of threads

Advantages of threads

• We can execute multiple tasks of an application at a time
• Reduces the complexity of a big applications
• Helps to improve the performance of an application drastically
• Utilizes the max resources of multiprocessor systems
• Better user interface in case of GUI based applications
• Reduces the development time of an application
• All the threads are independent , any unexpected exception happens in any of the thread will not lead to an application exit.

Disadvantages of threads

• Thread synchronization is an extra over head to the developers
• Shares the common data across the threads might cause the data inconsistency or thread sync issues
• Threads blocking for resources is more common problem
• Difficult in managing the code in terms of debugging or writing the code