Concurrency and Parallelism

How computers do more things at once and faster: thread concurrency, instruction parallelism and SIMD.

Hi Friends,

Welcome to the 141st issue of the Polymathic Engineer newsletter.

This week we talk about how computers implement concurrency and parallelism at OS and CPU level. The outline will be as follows:

• Concurrency vs parallelism

• Thread-Level Concurrency

• Instruction-Level Parallelism

• SIMD Parallelism