Concurrency vs. Parallelism

In this lesson, you'll understand the difference between concurrency and parallelism.

A lot of people confuse concurrency with parallelism because they both somewhat imply executing code simultaneously but they are two completely different concepts. This lesson will help you clear up some misconceptions caused by developers using these concepts interchangeably.

"Concurrency is about dealing with lots of things at once.

Parallelism is about doing lots of things at once"

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