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What is the difference between concurrency and parallelism in Rust?
Updated May 24, 2026
Short answer
Concurrency is managing multiple tasks; parallelism is executing tasks simultaneously.
Deep explanation
Rust enables concurrency via async tasks and threads, and parallelism via multi-threading (std::thread or rayon). The key distinction is scheduling vs simultaneous execution. Rust ensures safety via Send and Sync traits.
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