Computer Science / Unit 7 CS 0377 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Concurrency in the Language
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The idea
A language's concurrency treats the thread as an abstraction of a physical processor — and code is written the same way for concurrency and parallelism, since only the hardware beneath differs.
In practice
An app's overlapping downloads are written once and run on whatever cores exist.
Where people slip
Video 0204 drew the taxonomy; this is the programmer's seat.
Your place on the trail
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