Concurrency vs Parallelism

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Concurrency is about dealing with many things at once (structuring a program to handle multiple tasks), while parallelism is about doing many things at once (simultaneous execution on multiple cores). A concurrent program may or may not run in parallel.

Key Properties

• Dealing with Many Things
• Doing Many Things at Once

Related

• See Concurrency for dedicated deep-dive

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