Difference between concurrency and parallelism with Golang code examples

Ramseyjiang
Level Up Coding
Published in
6 min readApr 13, 2023

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In this post, I will explain the differences between concurrency and parallelism. After that, I will give code examples using Golang.

Concurrency and parallelism are related concepts in computer science but they have different meanings.

Concurrency refers to the concept of executing multiple tasks at the same time

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