Multithreading types

Like multiprocessing, there is not a single implementation, but two main ones. The main distinction between these is the maximum number of threads the processor can execute concurrently during a single cycle. The main goal of a multithreading implementation is to get as close to 100% utilization of the processor hardware as reasonably possible. Multithreading utilizes both thread-level and process-level parallelism to accomplish this goal.

The are two types of multithreading, which we will cover in the following sections.