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Difference between a “coroutine” and a “thread”?

First read: Concurrency vs Parallelism - What is the difference?

Concurrency is the separation of tasks to provide interleaved execution. Parallelism is the simultaneous execution of multiple pieces of work in order to increase speed. —https://github.com/servo/servo/wiki/Design

Short answer: With threads, the operating system switches running threads preemptively according to…

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