Thread Real-Life Examples

What types of programs could benefit from executing in threads? A program that can be further divided into smaller sets of independent instructions could be made more efficient when we run each such set of instructions in its own thread.

Examples:

• IDE platforms (like Android Studio and Visual Studio) benefit from multithreading since one thread would read the programmer’s keyboard input, another thread would check for the correct spelling of keywords and for syntax, a third thread would compile code, etc.
• Web servers (= web applications whose purpose is to perform actions for or to provide information to clients [= users]) benefit from multithreading because each thread could be used to establish a connection between the server and some client. For instance, when three clients make connection requests to the server, at least 3 threads will be created since each thread will manage each connection instance.