You're confusing concurrency [1] and parallelism [2] -- this is addressed on the bullet point before the one you quoted. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concu

You're confusing concurrency [1] and parallelism [2] -- this is addressed on the bullet point before the one you quoted. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concurrency_(computer_science) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concurrency_(computer_science) [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallel_computing http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallel_computing