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Exercise 1 - Theory questions

What is the difference between concurrency and parallelism?

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Why have machines become increasingly multicore in the past decade?

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Why do we divide software (programs) into concurrently executing parts (like threads or processes)?

(Or phrased differently: What problems do concurrency help in solving?)

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Does creating concurrent programs make the programmer's life easier? Harder? Maybe both?

(Come back to this after you have worked on part 4 of this exercise)

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What is the conceptual difference between threads and processes?

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Some languages support "fibers" (sometimes called "green threads") or "coroutines"? What are they?

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What is the Go-language's "goroutine"? A C/POSIX "pthread"?

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In Go, what does func GOMAXPROCS(n int) int change?

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