What is the difference between threading and parallelism?
Which one has advantage over the other?
Daniel Moth (a former coworker of mine)- Threading/Concurrency vs Parallelism article explains it all.
Quoted:
To take advantage of multiple cores from our software, ultimately threads have to be used. Because of this fact, some developers fall in the trap of equating multithreading to parallelism. That is not accurate...You can have multithreading on a single core machine, but you can only have parallelism on a multi core machine The quick test: If on a single core machine you are using threads and it makes perfect sense for your scenario, then you are not "doing parallelism", you are just doing multithreading.
To take advantage of multiple cores from our software, ultimately threads have to be used. Because of this fact, some developers fall in the trap of equating multithreading to parallelism. That is not accurate...You can have multithreading on a single core machine, but you can only have parallelism on a multi core machine
The quick test: If on a single core machine you are using threads and it makes perfect sense for your scenario, then you are not "doing parallelism", you are just doing multithreading.
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