Concurrency is not Parallelism by Rob Pike

Why HN readers recommended it

The standard link for explaining the concurrency versus parallelism distinction and the motivations behind Go's concurrency model.

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Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel

gnbitcom

Topic

concurrency vs parallelism

Format

talk

Level

intermediate

HN recommenders in dataset

4

HN mentions in dataset

6

Recommendation years in dataset

2021–2025

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From the original HN conversations

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• If you prefer to learn by video, here's an excellent talk on the same subject by Rob Pike that I link all the time to people [VIDEO]

• yeah, basically. a lot of people do not know, but async/await does have NOTHING do to with threads or processes. you can use threads with async/await, but you do not. async/await basically means you are running your "green threads"/tasks/promises on a event loop, the event …

• Anyone that can wrap their mind around the model of Communicating Sequential Processes[1] implemented using channels in Go will improve their programming. See also Concurrency is not Parallelism by Rob Pike: [VIDEO] After I figured it out, I spent a good month writing personal projects …