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gowldlast Friday at 8:49 PM1 replyview on HN

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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Zambytelast Friday at 9:36 PM

Parallelism implies concurrency but not does not imply asynchrony.