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Rob Pike Explains Why Concurrency Differs from Parallelism
In a classic talk, Rob Pike clarifies that concurrency is about dealing with many things at once, while parallelism is about doing many things at once. He argues that concurrency enables better program structure and scalability, not just speed. The video remains a foundational resource for developers learning concurrent programming.
Meridian48 take
Pike's distinction is still underappreciated; many developers conflate the two, leading to poorly designed concurrent systems.
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