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by nine_k 417 days ago
Concurrent, not parallel.

That is, iterators' execution flow is interspersed, with the `yield` statement explicitly giving control to another coroutine, and then continuing the current coroutine at another yield point, like the call to next(). This is very similar to JS coroutines implemented via promises, with `await` yielding control.

Even though there is only one thread of execution, the parts of the pipeline execute together in lockstep, not sequentially, so there's no need for a previous part to completely compute a large list before the following part can start iterating over it.