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concurrency

Making progress on several jobs over the same period, taking turns if needed.

Concurrency is structuring a program as independent tasks whose execution overlaps in time; it doesn't require multiple CPU cores.

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Examples

  • On a current_thread Tokio runtime, a heartbeat task and a report task take turns at each .await: concurrent, but never running at the same instant.

See also

parallelism asynchronous programming async task data race
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