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gowld 10 months ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Asynchrony is not concurrency

Concurrency implies asynchrony (two systems potentially doing work at the same time withut waiting for each other), but the converse is not true.

A single process can do work in an unordered (asynchronous) way.

Zambyte 10 months ago [–]

Parallelism implies concurrency but not does not imply asynchrony.

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