lysdexic to ProgrammingEnglish · 1 day agoConcurrency is not parallelismgo.devexternal-linkmessage-square10fedilinkarrow-up182arrow-down12
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minus-squareFizzyOrangelinkfedilinkarrow-up19·22 hours agoYeah 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?
minus-squaredoughless@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up5·18 hours agoI 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”.
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”.