Thanks for the response, I was being a bit tongue in cheek. I don't think you actually think it's awful :) And thanks for clarifying that. About concurrency vs

Thanks for the response, I was being a bit tongue in cheek. I don't think you actually think it's awful :) And thanks for clarifying that. About concurrency vs. parallelism, I think it is fairly standard to think of them as two different concepts that overlap somewhat. You can have concurrency with parallelism (e.g. pthreads, or M:N threading where you map "green threads" on to processes that can run in parallel). You can also have concurrency without parallelism. The difference between the two is that parallelism can be deterministic, whereas concurrency is always going to be non-deterministic. I recognize that it's not very clear, but it isn't a distinction that I made up, e.g. https://existentialtype.wordpress.com/2014/04/09/parallelism-and-concurrency-revisited/ https://existentialtype.wordpress.com/2014/04/09/parallelism...