A quick note about the terms used as part of this chapter. There is a fundamental difference between concurrency and parallelism, and it is worth understanding what that difference is as we begin implementing some of the more complicated parts of our application. Concurrency refers to the ability to handle multiple tasks that are starting, stopping, and completing in some sort of overlapping manner. If we were to look at that like a list of tasks and results, it might look something like this:
The difference between concurrency and parallelism
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