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Re:Concurrency in Rust by m0th87 on Sunday March 27, 2016 @11:48AM (#11370341)
Parallelism necessarily implies concurrency [1]

So, "SIMD concurrency" is not incorrect (although SIMD parallelism is more correct :)

1: http://programmers.stackexchange.com/a/155110

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Re:Concurrency in Rust by naasking on Sunday March 27, 2016 @12:53PM (#11370562)
This not true. CPUs have instruction parallelism, even on a single CPU, but there is no observable concurrency.

SIMD is data-level parallelism, not concurrency.

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