| comp., MS |
stream (Digital media that is delivered in a continuous flow across a network); flow (A content processing or query processing pipeline that contains operators that determine how the content or the query is processed); thread (A type of object within a process that runs program instructions. Using multiple threads allows concurrent operations within a process and enables one process to run different parts of its program on different processors simultaneously. A thread has its own set of registers, its own kernel stack, a thread environment block, and a user stack in the address space of its process) |