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Concurrency and Parallelism in Programming

Concurrency and Parallelism in Programming

Learn about concurrency and parallelism in programming and CPU/IO-bound programs.

Concurrency in programming

Concurrency is when multiple threads of a program start, run, and complete in overlapping time periods.

Once the program execution begins, one thread can run for some time, then it can stop and the second thread can start running. After some time, the second thread can stop and the third can start running.

Threads can get executed in a round-robin fashion or based on the priority of each thread. At any given instance, only one thread is running.

Advantages of concurrency

Some of the advantages of concurrency are:

  • Improves the
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