7.1 Overview
A concurrent program handles more than one task at a time. A familiar example is a web server that handles multiple client requests at the same time. Although concurrent programs can run even on a single-processor machine of bygone days, these programs should show a marked gain in performance by running on a multiprocessor machine: different tasks can be delegated to different processors. A parallel program in this sense is a concurrent program whose tasks can be handled literally at the same time because ...
