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The author is confusing concurrency with parallelism. Processes on modern OSes run concurrently. They may also run in parallel -- depending on how many cores th
by sumanthvepa 4y ago
The author is confusing concurrency with parallelism. Processes on modern OSes run concurrently. They may also run in parallel -- depending on how many cores the CPU has, or even the number of CPUs in the system.
- ravi-delia 4y agoThe author does indeed describe something which is concurrency (so phrased because the other direction may not be true), but it is described correctly as the "illusion of parallelism". To the user, the tasks aren't happening one at a time, but all at once.