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"Concurrent Means Parallel"

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Concurrency on a single processor is not parallelism — the machine alternates between tasks, sharing one resource by turns, which costs efficiency that true parallelism keeps.

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One clerk juggling two shop counters serves both, slower than two clerks would.

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Alternation resembles simultaneity from far enough away.