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Concurrency is not parallelism
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this post was submitted on 13 Oct 2024
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A comment on the YouTube video makes a good point that we already have a better word for the concept of dealing with multiple things at once: multitasking. Using a word that literally means "things happening at the same time" just adds to the confusion, since people already have a difficult time understanding the distinction between multitasking and concurrency.
Yeah it always bothered me that they're saying "concurrency is not concurrency".
I'm going to start using "multitasking" instead. That's so much better. Who's with me?
I will typically use the terms asynchronous and parallel when discussing the concepts, but I hadn't thought about using multitasking until I saw that comment. I mean, even C# calls them "tasks".