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Lane Wagner
  1. True, but out of scope for the article.
  2. True. I used probably because I wasn't referring to anything specific
  3. Good point, although the take advantage of the some of the biggest differences between threading and async operations, you will need multiple instructions running at the same time.
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Maximilian Burszley

multiple instructions running at the same time

That would be multi-processing. Multi-threading isn't necessarily concurrent and does not necessarily take advantage of multiple cores or processors (i.e. implementation-specific detail)