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jkcxn on July 18, 2025 | parent | context | favorite | on: Asynchrony is not concurrency

Not the OP, but in formal definitions like Communicating Sequential Processes, concurrency means the possibility for tasks to run out of order and still be correct, as long as other synchronisation events happen

gowld on July 18, 2025 [–]

Concurrency implies asynchrony (two systems potentially doing work at the same time withut waiting for each other), but the converse is not true.

A single process can do work in an unordered (asynchronous) way.

Zambyte on July 18, 2025 | [–]

Parallelism implies concurrency but not does not imply asynchrony.

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