Is parallel programming == multithread programming?

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Eko Kurniawan Khannedy picture Eko Kurniawan Khannedy · Feb 18, 2010 · Viewed 11.3k times · Source

Is parallel programming == multithread programming?

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Lucas Lindström picture Lucas Lindström · Feb 18, 2010

Multithreaded programming is parallel, but parallel programming is not necessarily multithreaded.

Unless the multithreading occurs on a single core, in which case it is only concurrent.

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