Explain the Art of Thread Killing

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What is thread killing and how do you do it?

That threw me for a moment. In a forum, with threads, and asking how to kill them?

I guess you mean threads as in programs.

There are lots of ways of making a computer /appear/ to do more than one thing at a time (and some ways to literally have them do so).

One of the simplest mechanisms used within a single piece of code is "threading".

For an example of a very tiny bit of threading, I have a program on my website that does the "Countdown" numbers game. It uses a thread to do the solution, mainly because it originally was sooo slow. The UI let me abort a solution before it had finished. Clicking on the "Quit" button caused the main loop code to kill the thread it had started that was doing all the calculations.