### Is concurrency better than parallelism? { #is-concurrency-better-than-parallelism }

Nope! That's not the moral of the story.

Concurrency is different than parallelism. And it is better on **specific** scenarios that involve a lot of waiting. Because of that, it generally is a lot better than parallelism for web application development. But not for everything.

/**
 * Utility class for handling Base64 encoding and decoding.
 * <p>
 * This class now uses the standard {@link java.util.Base64} implementation
 * instead of a custom implementation, providing better security and performance.
 * The API remains backward compatible with previous versions.
 * </p>
 *
 * @author higa
 */
public abstract class Base64Util {

    /**
     * Do not instantiate.
     */

	// It has a buffer size of 128K:
	// https://github.com/aws/aws-sdk-java/blob/master/aws-java-sdk-s3/src/main/java/com/amazonaws/services/s3/internal/eventstreaming/MessageDecoder.java#L26
	// but we must make sure there is always space to add 256 bytes:
	// https://github.com/aws/aws-sdk-java/blob/master/aws-java-sdk-s3/src/main/java/com/amazonaws/services/s3/model/SelectObjectContentEventStream.java#L197

 *
 * <p>The {@link #count} and {@link #size} implementations all iterate across the set returned by
 * {@link Multiset#entrySet()}, as do many methods acting on the set returned by {@link
 * #elementSet()}. Override those methods for better performance.
 *
 * @author Louis Wasserman
 */
@GwtCompatible
abstract class AbstractSortedMultiset<E extends @Nullable Object> extends AbstractMultiset<E>
    implements SortedMultiset<E> {

 * under the License.
 */
package org.apache.maven.artifact.resolver.filter;

import org.apache.maven.artifact.Artifact;

/**
 * Filter to only retain objects in the given artifactScope or better.
 *
 */
abstract class AbstractScopeArtifactFilter implements ArtifactFilter {

    private boolean compileScope;

    private boolean runtimeScope;

    private boolean testScope;

     * method returns {@code true}, it means that element count of stream returned by method {@link #problems()}
     * and the counter returned by {@link #totalProblemsReported()} are not equal (latter is bigger than former).
     *
     * @return true if the problem collector has overflowed and some problems were not preserved
     */
    boolean problemsOverflow();

    /**

                                continue;
                            }

                            // TODO might be better to have source.retrieve() throw a specific exception for this
                            // situation
                            // and catch here rather than have it return null
                            if (rGroup == null) {

     *
     * @deprecated A value of {@code true} does not mean that the dependency should
     * be placed on the classpath. See {@code JavaPathType} instead for better analysis.
     */
    @Deprecated
    boolean isAddedToClasspath();

		Err:     "requested functionality is not supported",
	}
)

// Error is a KMS error that can be translated into an S3 API error.
//
// It does not implement the standard error Unwrap interface for
// better error log messages.
type Error struct {
	Code    int    // The HTTP status code returned to the client
	APICode string // The API error code identifying the error
	Err     string // The error message returned to the client

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