Author: Tianle Yuan

Concurrency v.s. Parallelism

Look at the picture shown below (from Concurrency vs Parallelism) to understand the difference between concurrency and parallelism:

Watchout!

Concurrent ← Parallel

• If a task is a concurrent task, it may or may not execute in parallel.

• If a task is a parallel task, it is definitely a concurrent task

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