Parallel execution is concurrent by definition, but concurrency is not necessarily par‐
allelism. In practice, this means being multithreaded is concurrency, but parallelism
only occurs if those threads are being scheduled and executed on different CPUs at
the exact same time. Thus, generically we speak about concurrency and being con‐
current, but parallelism is a specific form of concurrency.
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