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I'm of the opinion that we chose the wrong term for concurrency. Concurrency means multiple things going on simultaneously, which is not what's happening with o

I'm of the opinion that we chose the wrong term for concurrency. Concurrency means multiple things going on simultaneously, which is not what's happening with our version of it. Only one thing is happening at any given time, but the tasks are being multiplexed on a shared resource. Parallelism = concurrency, "concurrency" = multiplexing. Maybe there's a more appropriate term than multiplexing, but I think that's certainly better than concurrency at describing it.

Kranar 1y ago
Yes that's true the terms are confusing but nevertheless it's important. For example having read through some of this book it's still not clear if this book involves parallelism, especially since the book compares itself to Python, which does not involve parallelism without running C extensions.