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What is the difference between concurrency and parallelism in Swift applications?
Updated May 17, 2026
Short answer
Concurrency is task structure; parallelism is simultaneous execution.
Deep explanation
Concurrency is about managing multiple tasks that may interleave execution, while parallelism executes multiple tasks at the same time on multiple cores. Swift concurrency abstracts thread management, allowing the system to decide actual parallel execution.
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