Computer Science / CS 0053 · Atom · ~20 seconds
"Concurrent Means Parallel"
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Concurrency on a single processor is not parallelism — the machine alternates between tasks, sharing one resource by turns, which costs efficiency that true parallelism keeps.
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One clerk juggling two shop counters serves both, slower than two clerks would.
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Alternation resembles simultaneity from far enough away.