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Understanding Concurrency

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Most computer programs run instructions sequentially. In many cases, that’s fine, since computers can process instructions so rapidly that even calculating complex mathematical equations takes so little time that a computer program barely seems to slow down at all.

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Wang, W. (2022). Understanding Concurrency. In: Pro iPhone Development with SwiftUI. Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-7827-7_5

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