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Concurrency is not Parallelism by Rob Pike
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Rob Pike's Go talk distinguishing concurrency, the structuring of independent processes, from parallelism, their simultaneous execution. It uses Go channels and goroutines to illustrate.
The standard link for explaining the concurrency versus parallelism distinction and the motivations behind Go's concurrency model.
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