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Reasons for concurrency and parallelism

To complete this exercise you will have to use git. Create one or several commits that adds answers to the following questions and push it to your groups repository to complete the task.

When answering the questions, remember to use all the resources at your disposal. Asking the internet isn't a form of "cheating", it's a way of learning.

What is concurrency? What is parallelism? What's the difference?

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Why have machines become increasingly multicore in the past decade?

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What kinds of problems motivates the need for concurrent execution?

(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 are the differences between processes, threads, green threads, and coroutines?

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Which one of these do pthread_create() (C/POSIX), threading.Thread() (Python), go (Go) create?

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How does pythons Global Interpreter Lock (GIL) influence the way a python Thread behaves?

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With this in mind: What is the workaround for the GIL (Hint: it's another module)?

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What does func GOMAXPROCS(n int) int change?

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