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Re:Pessimism about parallelism by vmchale on Wednesday December 26, 2018 @08:45PM (#18766560)
> High-end games are now running pretty close to 100% CPU utilization on octa-core console hardware

That's concurrency, no?

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Re:Pessimism about parallelism by babyloneleven on Thursday December 27, 2018 @09:53AM (#18769722)
No, that's parallelism, because the cores are running in parallel.

The software is written using concurrency techniques such as threads, that work on both multicore machines and machines with a single core.

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