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37 questions linked to/from What is the difference between concurrent programming and parallel programming?
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Promise.all is run concurrently or in parallel [duplicate]
As far as I know, NodeJS doesn't run promises in parallel, it runs them concurrently as it is a single threaded event loop architecture. Ability to run things in parallel by creating a new child ...
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What is the difference between concurrency and multithreading? (especially in Java) [duplicate]
Is concurrency just a broader term and multithreading is one of types of concurrency ?
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What is the difference between concurrency and parallelism?
What is the difference between concurrency and parallelism?
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How do I parallelize a simple Python loop?
This is probably a trivial question, but how do I parallelize the following loop in python?
# setup output lists
output1 = list()
output2 = list()
output3 = list()
for j in range(0, 10):
# calc ...
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asynchronous and non-blocking calls? also between blocking and synchronous
What is the difference between asynchronous and non-blocking calls? Also between blocking and synchronous calls (with examples please)?
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Coordinating parallel execution in node.js
The event-driven programming model of node.js makes it somewhat tricky to coordinate the program flow.
Simple sequential execution gets turned into nested callbacks, which is easy enough (though a ...
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How can I perform parallel asynchronous HTTP GET requests with reqwest?
The async example is useful, but being new to Rust and Tokio, I am struggling to work out how to do N requests at once, using URLs from a vector, and creating an iterator of the response HTML for each ...
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Python 3: send method of generators
I can't understand the send method. I understand that it is used to operate the generator. But
the syntax is here: generator.send(value).
I somehow can't catch why the value should become the result ...
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Is there a difference between concurrency and parallelism in java?
I have been doing some research in Google and cant quite get my head around the differences (if any) between concurrent and parallel programs in java. Some of the information I have looked at suggests ...
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What's the advantage of a Java-5 ThreadPoolExecutor over a Java-7 ForkJoinPool?
Java 5 has introduced support for asynchronous task execution by a thread pool in the form of the Executor framework, whose heart is the thread pool implemented by java.util.concurrent....
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Multiprocessing : More processes than cpu.count
Note: I "forayed" into the land of multiprocessing 2 days ago. So my understanding is very basic.
I am writing and application for uploads to amazon s3 buckets. In case the file size is larger(100mb),...
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Python Using Multiprocessing
I am trying to use multiprocessing in python 3.6. I have a for loopthat runs a method with different arguments. Currently, it is running one at a time which is taking quite a bit of time so I am ...
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IoT request response protocol
We need to build a server that can communicate with some embedded devices running a variant of Android. We need to be able to send commands to the device, and receive a response. A simple command ...
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What do the different (HotSpot) JVM thread types do?
I see there are six thread types implemented into the HotSpot JVM: VMThread, CGCThread, PGCThread, JavaThread, CompilerThread and WatcherThread. However I don't know which thread type is doing what ...
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Confusion regarding the Blocking of "peer threads" when a user-level thread blocks
I was reading about differences between threads and processes, and literally everywhere online, one difference is commonly written without much explanation:
If a process gets blocked, remaining ...
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