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Cooperative multitasking on a single CPU is concurrent, but not parallel. It's still very useful.
by Scaevolus 14y ago
Cooperative multitasking on a single CPU is concurrent, but not parallel. It's still very useful.
- jules 14y agoYes, but only because there is parallelism between the CPU and the peripherals, like disk, network and the brain of the person using the computer.
- enneff 14y agoThe realm of the programming language is the CPU. In the context of this talk, the terms concurrency and parallelism should refer to tasks running on CPUs. It confuses the issue greatly when you introduce the outside world, which is inherently parallel.