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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
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Subject: Re: Is Parallel Programming Hard, And, If So, What Can You Do About It?
Date: Tue, 20 May 2025 16:06:13 -0400
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> Personally, I rarely use multi-threading, and when I do, it is usually in
> the form of using mutex locks over shared buffers.
> You lock the mutex if needed to copy data from one thread to another; or
> when doing a task that depends on the data being consistent.

FWIW, I think these kinds of things usually fall in the scope of
concurrency rather than parallelism.


        Stefan