multithreadedcode
nounUK /ˌmʌltiˈθrɛdɪd kəʊd/
US /ˌmʌltiˈθrɛdɪd koʊd/
Computer code that lets a program do several jobs at the same time.
The game runs smoothly because its multithreaded code splits the work across several cores.
OTHER MEANINGS
2. Software written so that separate threads share memory and run simultaneously within one process.
Debugging multithreaded code is tricky because threads can interfere with each other.
3. A program designed to speed up heavy calculations by dividing them among multiple threads.
The scientists rewrote the simulation as multithreaded code to cut run time in half.
4. Code that must carefully lock shared data to avoid race conditions.
Poorly written multithreaded code can crash when two threads update the same variable.