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Re:Erlang/OTP by Example by conradfr on Sunday October 21, 2018 @12:45PM (#18268824)
> I've had plenty of interviewees who couldn't explain the difference between concurrency vs parallelism

Is there a good answer when it seems people don't even agree on what those term mean and apply to in CS.

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Re:Erlang/OTP by Example by ilovecaching on Sunday October 21, 2018 @01:28PM (#18269023)
In computer science, concurrency refers to the ability of different parts or units of a program, algorithm, or problem to be executed out-of-order or in partial order, without affecting the final outcome.

Parallel computing is a type of computation in which many calculations or the execution of processes are carried out simultaneously.

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