Hacker News Reader

It may have less performance for various reasons, but it can't be less concurrent by definition. Previously there was no concurrency.

View on HN

You can have concurrency with only one thread. What you cannot have is parallelism.

More context here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1050222/concurrency-vs-pa...

Yes, and I believe that before the layout didn't happen concurrently with other stuff in the browser. It was called on a change and the rest of processing waited. Is that not right?

Reply on news.ycombinator.com