Concurrency vs Parallelism

An excerpt from Grokking Concurrency by Kirill Bobrov

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The conversational meanings of the words “parallel” and “concurrent” are mostly synonymous, which is a source of significant confusion that extends even to the computer science literature. Distinguishing between parallel and…