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submitted 5 days ago by cm0002@lemmy.world to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev

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[–] scrion@lemmy.world 4 points 5 days ago (1 children)

They are launched sequentially, but run simultaneously, yes - at least some of them. And they run concurrently but not in parallel - using a single execution context, there is only a single thread, so no parallelism exist.

[–] ptu@sopuli.xyz 1 points 5 days ago

I see, I was only aware of sleep but that makes sense. Thanks for your insight.