Re: what's the difference between 'concurrent' and 'parallel';

Tasks can run concurrently, but not necessarily in parallel.

If you initiate 2 large (1 hour) batch processes at the same time, they will be running concurrently, irregardless of how they are executed (sharing cpus, process time, read/writes to disk, etc...)

In parallelism, operations would never interrupt each other, or 'intersect'.

• hope this helps... KL

"hayseed" <member26632_at_dbforums.com> wrote in message news:2649645.1047821611_at_dbforums.com...
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> i was confused by 'concurrent' and 'parallel'.Do they have the
> same meaning?
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Received on Tue Mar 18 2003 - 01:25:39 CST