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m0th87 on March 27, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: Concurrency in Rust

Parallelism necessarily implies concurrency [1]

So, "SIMD concurrency" is not incorrect (although SIMD parallelism is more correct :)

1: http://programmers.stackexchange.com/a/155110

naasking on March 27, 2016 [–]

This not true. CPUs have instruction parallelism, even on a single CPU, but there is no observable concurrency.

SIMD is data-level parallelism, not concurrency.

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