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Article #25609: What is the difference between thread-safe and multi-threaded?

Problem:
What is the difference between thread-safe and multi-threaded?

Solution:
Multi-threaded refers to an application that can have multiple 
blocks of code (or threads) executing simultaneously.

Thread-safe applies to libraries and means that two or more 
threads a multi-threaded application can access a thread-safe 
library with at the same time without interfering with each others 
changes to the library or thier memory spaces.

Last Modified: 26-OCT-00