What is Thread Management?

Thread management involves the creation, scheduling, synchronization, and termination of threads within a computer program or operating system. It's crucial for enabling concurrency, allowing multiple tasks to execute seemingly simultaneously and improving application responsiveness and performance, especially on multi-core processors. Thread management typically includes mechanisms for thread creation and destruction, context switching between threads, and synchronization primitives (e.g., mutexes, semaphores) to prevent race conditions and ensure data consistency when multiple threads access shared resources.