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jkcxnlast Friday at 8:34 PM1 replyview on HN

Not the OP, but in formal definitions like Communicating Sequential Processes, concurrency means the possibility for tasks to run out of order and still be correct, as long as other synchronisation events happen


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gowldlast Friday at 8:49 PM

Concurrency implies asynchrony (two systems potentially doing work at the same time withut waiting for each other), but the converse is not true.

A single process can do work in an unordered (asynchronous) way.

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