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> I've had plenty of interviewees who couldn't explain the difference between concurrency vs parallelism

Is there a good answer when it seems people don't even agree on what those term mean and apply to in CS.




In computer science, concurrency refers to the ability of different parts or units of a program, algorithm, or problem to be executed out-of-order or in partial order, without affecting the final outcome.

Parallel computing is a type of computation in which many calculations or the execution of processes are carried out simultaneously.




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