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But, um, concurrently means "at the same time," too. Merriam's first definition is actually "running parallel." Wouldn't it be better to describe it as runnin
by IbJacked 15y ago
But, um, concurrently means "at the same time," too. Merriam's first definition is actually "running parallel."
Wouldn't it be better to describe it as running serially, using non-blocking asynchronous function calls? Guess that doesn't really roll of the tongue, though.
- sausagefeet 15y agoIn computer science the two terms are generally distinguished, while you're free to redefine them commonly when people say concurrency they refer to a model of performing things at the same time but may not actually be simultaneous. Parallelism is generally the actual act of it running simultaneously.
- IbJacked 15y agoFair enough, I was unaware of the common distinction in the CS domain.
- wunderfool 15y agothen Merriam is wrong. concurrency is not parallelism concurrency is a design consideration that provides for resource isolation. parallelism is about algorithms designed to be executed on parallel architectures google it, there are dozens of informative discussions