What are the advantages and disadvantages of multithreading?

 Advantages:

• Since by multithreading multiple executions are carried out in the same process environment to a large degree independent of one other Multithreading assist the applications to perform and respond better.
• The operations can be completely interrupting driven.
• The processor utilization is inferior through multithreading. Thus the power consumption is decreased to a great extend.
• Multithreading is helpful in applications that must processes very large amount of data.

 Disadvantages:

• Since the threads are sharing the similar address area and can access the resources like open files problems can take place if different threads use different data structures.
• If a parent process has multiple threads for suitable process functioning the child processes also should be multithreaded since all of them may be essential.