One of the things to avoid when it comes to parallelism is working with raw threads. Abstraction offers a way around the issue, by avoiding the need to deal with low-level details of parallel systems ...

In technology circles, parallelism is also often called concurrency. It is the computing construct that allows a microprocessor to drive two (or more) separate processes at the same time.

Books Received Published: 11 August 1910 Theories of Parallelism: an Historical Critique G. B. M. Nature 84, 169–170 (1910) Cite this article ...