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made "concurernvy vs. parallelism" section clearer #174

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### Concurrency vs. parallelism

Concurrency is not parallelism. It enables parallelism. It's about dealing with, while parallelism is about doing, lots of things at once.
Concurrency is not parallelism. It enables parallelism.

**Concurrency** is when two or more tasks can start, run, and complete in overlapping time periods. It doesn't necessarily mean they'll ever both be running at the same instant. (e.g. multitasking on a single-core machine.)
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two or more tasks can start, run, and complete in overlapping time periods, that is also true for Parallelism, isn't it?

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@schnittstabil As is stated: "concurrency enables parallism". Of course there is an overlap.

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**Parallelism** is when tasks literally run at the same time. (e.g. on a multicore processor.)

[(Source)](http://stackoverflow.com/a/1050257)


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