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I like this definition: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5715394

Concurrency is a property of the problem - no dependencies between tasks. Parallelism is a solution which uses that property.

This definition doesn't require (erroneous) distinctions between single and multicore systems. If I use a single core system to emulate a multicore system complete with emulated clock cycles and what not, are the emulated programs running concurrently or in parallel? From which point of view? The definition shouldn't dictate an implementation.



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