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mkehrt • today at 10:08 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

As other comments have pointed out, this is just not true in general usage.

When I was a grad student studying this stuff (~20 years ago), we used "parallelism" to mean running on different cores at the same time and "concurrency" to mean preemptive multithreading on a single processor.


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wiml • today at 11:08 PM

That's the same distinction, made in the same way, isn't it?

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