lysdexic to ProgrammingEnglish · 2 months agoConcurrency is not parallelismgo.devexternal-linkmessage-square16fedilinkarrow-up197arrow-down12
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minus-squareFizzyOrangelinkfedilinkarrow-up22arrow-down1·2 months 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-up7·2 months 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”.