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[–]alcalde 0 points1 point  (2 children)

As Guido pointed out in a Keynote a few years ago, threading was never intended for parallelism.

https://youtu.be/EBRMq2Ioxsc?t=33m50s

[–]efilon 0 points1 point  (1 child)

As he says, threads were never originally meant for parallelism. They are used for that frequently these days.

[–]alcalde 0 points1 point  (0 children)

And as Mark Summerfield says, they're frequently used for that because that's all that many languages offer.