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Such additional hardware has these benefit:
* The thread switch can be done in one CPU cycle.
* It appears to each thread that they are executing alone and not sharing any hardware resources with any other threads. This minimizes the amount of software changes needed within the application as well as the operating system
other threads. This minimizes the amount of software changes needed within the application as well as the operating system
to support multithreading.